Re: Small usenet archive.

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Simon Griffiths wrote:

>I was wondering if anyone had setup a small usenet site.  What i want to do
>if this is possible is to download all our news from specific groups and
>then offer them out to local clients on this side of the network.  Have any
>of you done this?
>
>I'm a little confused as to software to be used as well as I keep hearing of
>inn, leafnode, fetchnews, etc... any pointer or advise on which to use, or
>combinations would greatly be appreciated.

I use leafnode for this. It's very easy to use and non-maintenance. INN is a
more industrial strength solution.

fetchnews is part of leafnode. I run it in ip-up.local. As the name
suggests, it fetches the new news from the servers and stores in locally
/var/spool/news. 

leafnode itself is a news server. It serves up the stuff in /var/spool/news
to your local client (point it at localhost). It accepts stuff you post and your
postings get uploaded to the server when you next run fetchnews (as the name
doesn't suggest).

atb

Martin


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