news server setup

2001-02-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
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Greetings --

My ISP is once again changing Usenet providers, meaning that I'm going
to have to deal with the whole article renumbering mess. Grrr. (Did I
mention that this has happened before?)

I've decided that enough is enough, and it's time to bite the bullet
and set up a local news server, so that I can pull in my own feeds,
and not have to deal with this in the future.

Is there any relatively-newbie-level guide to setting up a Usenet
server under Debian (or under Linux, period)? I'm looking for
something that discusses the pros and cons of the available options
(inn vs. inn2 vs. leafnode vs. ...)  and how to set each of them up to
support local reading and posting. I'll be pulling in a fairly small
feed (20 to 50 groups, mostly low traffic but a few biggies (rasfw,
clpm, etc.), and the ability to easily post as well as read is a must.

Thanks for any help,
john.

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Re: news server setup

2001-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
John S. J. Anderson wrote:
 Is there any relatively-newbie-level guide to setting up a Usenet
 server under Debian (or under Linux, period)? I'm looking for
 something that discusses the pros and cons of the available options
 (inn vs. inn2 vs. leafnode vs. ...)  and how to set each of them up to
 support local reading and posting. I'll be pulling in a fairly small
 feed (20 to 50 groups, mostly low traffic but a few biggies (rasfw,
 clpm, etc.), and the ability to easily post as well as read is a must.

Leafnode will work right out of the box, no real configuration should be
needed except telling it where to pull news from.

-- 
see shy jo