In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
        Xavier Savalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> 
> Kai Gro�johann wrote:
> 
>> I think that INN is pretty much the standard news server these days,
>> but it might be not so easy to administer.  If you are looking for an
>> easy-to-administer solution, maybe Leafnode is for you.  I think
>> recent versions of Leafnode can store local groups.
> 
> Thanks for your answer (I was considering also asking it to the german
> lists :-). We currently have leafnode, but if I am right, it doesn't
> handle local groups.

The 2.0 beta versions (available at
http://www.leafnode.org/download.html) do support local newsgroups, at
least according to the FAQ (http://www.leafnode.org/faq.html#6). I've
not tried the 2.0 beta with local newsgroups, though, so I can't say how
well it works. I'm using the 2.0 beta to locally cache newsgroups from
my ISP's news server (its retention interval is VERY poor).

> A more clever question:
> -is it possible to run Leafnode(towards remote newsgroups)  and
> INN(towards local newsgroups) simultaneously on the same news server? My
> problem is to provide to client PCs both kind of newsgroup from same
> newsreader program (Netscape in fact)

It might be possible to run them on separate ports, but not on the same
port, at least not simultaneously. I don't know about getting fetchnews
(the part of leafnode that fetches news articles) to feed into an INN
news database. For that matter, posting would be a problem, too. You'd
probably do better to try the Leafnode 2.0 beta.

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