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Re: Off-line news spool?



On Aug 08, Adam Shand wrote:
> >> Now that I'm switching to Debian, I may give it another try. And I've
> >> been reading about leafnode, which (if I understand right) would serve
> >> the same purpose as INN. Is this correct? 
> >
> >Actually, I might suggest newsx over leafnode. It provides a tiny nntpd
> >(atually nnrpd) for readers to connect to.
> 
> Ohh... and here I was about to suggest nntpcache (unfortunately there is no
> debian package for it but it's easy to compile and install).  We've been
> using nntpcache here for about a year and are quite happy with it.  The
> latest version (1.0.7.1) is also heaps nicer.
> 
> What's newsx like?  And how are you getting it to do UUCP?

Nooooh, I also read the INN manual, gave up after a SHORT while, and
installed leafnode. Took me two minutes, and it worked (out of the box)
It gets the news requested within the next time it is started.

Marcus

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Marcus Brinkmann
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