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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:16:28 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        David Fuchs <beastie@beastie.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NNTP & CNEWS
Message-ID:  <20000119001628.Y12908@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <002801bf615b$a389d2a0$0201a8c0@uniserve.com>; from beastie@beastie.net on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 06:28:00PM -0800
References:  <002801bf615b$a389d2a0$0201a8c0@uniserve.com>

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-On [20000118 04:02], David Fuchs (beastie@beastie.net) wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get some definitive information for CNEWS?
>I've installed
>
>nntp-1.5.12.2.tgz and
>cnews-cr.g.tgz
>
>on FreeBSD 3.2 and I've got the news server working, but everything
>with CNEWS comes in a multitude of batch files.  The information I'm
>looking for is essentially this:

One question before we start answering,

why on earth are you using CNEWS?

The design of CNEWS cannot cope with modern day newsfeeds, since CNEWS
uses a batch method.

I strongly urge you to use INN or likewise server or in case of not
needing a full feed, something like leafnode(+) or suck.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok vd W/Asmodai         asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org]
Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best  
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Necessity is the mother of invention...


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