Re: Help keeping a news spool
R. Ransbottom writes: Long ago I ran bnews and cnews but with real upstream newsfeeds. Cnews works just fine with suck. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Help keeping a news spool
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:44:48AM -0400, R. Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I like to run a local news spool, but I only have newsreader access with my provider. I like to use trn or strn to read from the local spool. What is the best way to do this with Debian? Since Debian 2.0 or earlier I have been using leafnode and trn/strn with a customized Pnews script. I'm using leafnode. It falls over once in a while, but tends to work OK most of the time. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpDXDbw8yMVE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help keeping a news spool
Karsten writes: I'm using leafnode. It falls over once in a while,... I'm using cnews, and have been for more then ten years. It never falls over. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: Help keeping a news spool
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:57:28AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Cnews works just fine with suck. The inn2 Debian package sets up fairly easily, and works with suck. I have a feeling that inn can be quite merciless on hard drives (esp. IDE) though, having gone through two Quantums in a row once, which I attributed to inn's drive-intensive operations, expiry mostly I guess. My, that is quite a run-on sentence I must say. -- Bob BernsteinSufficiently advanced file sharing systems atshould be indistinguishable from corporate Esmond, R.I., USA VPNs. Bless VPNs for creating all that suspicious-looking encrypted traffic. D.Marti
Re: Help keeping a news spool
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:48:00PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten writes: I'm using leafnode. It falls over once in a while,... I'm using cnews, and have been for more then ten years. It never falls over. How do you specify subscribed groups with cnews, and what upstream server(s) do you use? Leafnode fits well with my ISP, and I like the automatic addition and subtraction of groups to the active fetch list depending on my own reading habits. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpk6unFPAk2a.pgp Description: PGP signature
