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From: barnabyh on 13 Dec 2009 19:12 Lew Pitcher wrote: > On December 13, 2009 16:39, in alt.os.linux.slackware, invalid(a)address.org > wrote: > >> What would be a good local news server to run at home, apart from >> leafnode? > > To what purpose? It would just be for myself at home and access from maybe two other machines from time to time, but mainly from the same desktop. Something really small would do, as long as it allows for good filtering. Leafnode sounds good but I'm trying to look into a few more alternatives before committing. It needs to do secure news and authorization, because most ISP's here have stopped offering usenet access now. I'm using one of the few remaining free ones which is on a registration only basis. > FWIW, I recommend Leafnode, unless you have a large community and some > dedicated storage for INN. > > HTH Thanks for that. Barnabyh -- The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants. NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants. (Comment on Slashdot, Monday March 28 2005, @11:02AM, Gnome Removed From Slackware.)
From: barnabyh on 13 Dec 2009 19:21 > I am not sure what you want to do for it, but like I mentioned in > another post, if you are interested in nnmaster, I'd be happy to help > with the nn package available in Slackware. > > Aaron W. Hsu I'll look into nn & nnmaster, thanks. Basically, I'm just trying to achieve good filtering. Not been very happy with Pan or Knode (never used KDE much, or at least not the Kontact and Koffice components). I've looked into tin but it does not seem to do snews authorization. I may get away just with slrn, will see, but having a local server would probably be better as it would free me up to use different clients. Barnabyh -- The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants. NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants. (Comment on Slashdot, Monday March 28 2005, @11:02AM, Gnome Removed From Slackware.)
From: barnabyh on 13 Dec 2009 19:27 Ewald Pfau wrote: > > When using software, which does not need a server, as slrn or tin, you may > access the news-spool directly (in /var/spool/news) and exchange news with > slrnpull, part of slrn. > > For tin, I use three lines for bash, acting as 'inews' program (configured > as 'inews_prog' for tin): Didn't get tin to work with this particular server, I think it's because it does not support snews. > > #!/bin/sh > out="/var/spool/slrnpull/out.going" > tt=$(mktemp /tmp/XXXXXX); > ts=$out/X${tt#/tmp/}.news; > mv $tt $ts; while read z; do { echo $z >>$ts; } done > > Switching from unmaintained 'suck' (for exchange) and 'snews' (as a tiny > server), I had minimum effort for 'slrnpull' with two paths linked: > > /var/spool/slrnpull/news -> /var/spool/news > /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going -> var/lib/news/out.going > Experimenting with slrn now, thanks for the tip. Barnabyh -- The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants. NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants. (Comment on Slashdot, Monday March 28 2005, @11:02AM, Gnome Removed From Slackware.)
From: barnabyh on 13 Dec 2009 19:31 Handover Phist wrote: > > Why not Leafnode? I use it to run a little server to serve the household > and the few users find it more than adequate. If you're going to build > something big, I think Inn would suit, but I've never set it up so I > dont know how much work that would take. Just trying to find out more first. > > AFAICT Hamster is quite old and meant to be set up on win 9[58]?! Yikes. > Yes it is, although it also worked on Win2000Pro for me. Barnabyh -- The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants. NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants. (Comment on Slashdot, Monday March 28 2005, @11:02AM, Gnome Removed From Slackware.)
From: Keith Keller on 13 Dec 2009 23:46
On 2009-12-14, barnabyh <invalid(a)address.org> wrote: > > It needs to do secure news and authorization, because most ISP's here > have stopped offering usenet access now. leafnode does authorization, but I don't know if it does ssl. There is a workaround for leafnode 1, which probably works for the current leafnode 2 beta: http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/doc_en/FAQ.html#nntps --keith -- kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information |