Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:18:18 -0800 From: hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov (Jake Hamby) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: On the topic of news servers.. Message-ID: <199703102218.OAA02603@aris.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Regarding recent articles about how best to set up a news server, I talked to the guy who runs my ISP last night about how he was able to manage so well serving news from, if you can believe this, a Mac Quadra running A/UX !!! He says he uses a Perl script to run through the activity log and figure out which groups his customers are reading, then changes the expire logs to expire messages in unread groups after 1 day, while keeping messages in read groups about 7 days. This seemed like a really good idea to me, and I have had no problems using the news server to read/post to various groups, and it seems to have a "fuller" feed than either JPL or my university, which seem to be dropping messages, even though they are run from much more capable server boxes! If anyone is interested in the script, I could probably get him to forward it to me. Just let me know. -- Jake
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