From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 16:46:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09311 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08934 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:45:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA12343; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:38:56 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199803130038.AAA12343@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Andrew cc: Brian Somers , Mission Control , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: News In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Mar 1998 20:57:31 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 00:38:55 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I am attempting to set up a news server....does anyone know where I start! > > > :-))) > > > > > > Thanks is advance! > > > > The leafnode and knews ports aren't bad for beginners. > > I'm currently looking at nntpcache. How does this compare? Or am I talking > about apples and oranges? Not sure - I haven't looked at nntpcache :-) leafnode is a news server with a 3 line config file that fetches news based on requests made by clients and expires it based on threads not having been read/written for a configurable number of days. It runs from inetd and is *really* easy to set up. knews is just a nice X based reader. It does the best threading I've seen and has all the features you'd want. This is all, of course, just my opinion :-) > thanks in advance > > Andrew Perry > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message