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Date:      13 Mar 98 08:13:44 +0100
From:      leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: News
Message-ID:  <a31_9803130828@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>

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At 13 Mar 98 01:38:55 Brian Somers wrote regarding Re: News

 BS> leafnode is a news server with a 3 line config file that fetches
 BS> news based on requests made by clients and expires it based on
 BS> threads not having been read/written for a configurable number
 BS> of days.  It runs from inetd and is *really* easy to set up.

Except it is not quite compatible with netscape4.04 at least.
First it leafnode barfs on an expanded command from netscape.
Secondly, it seems netscape is looking at _every_ newsgroup for new messages,
not only the ones subscribed, causing leafnode to try to fetch everything.


Leif Neland
leifn@image.dk

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