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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD + News Date: 24 Oct 1996 02:53:46 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <54mlnq$b3e@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <326E61BD.41C67EA6@intelifest.co.uk> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <326E61BD.41C67EA6@intelifest.co.uk>, Joe Warren-Meeks <joe@intelifest.co.uk> writes: >Hi there > >Im trying to setup my freebsd (2.1.5) to automatically fetch certain >newsgroups from my ISP's news server so that i can read them offline. > >Ideally i would like to run a newserver on my machine so that everyone I'll probably get flamed by the INN folks for this... In my opinion, for a beginner running a newsfeed that is only handling a few groups, Cnews is easier to setup and test out. You will need Cnews, the NNTP program, and a program called slurp to handle the transfer of news to you. You will also want to make sure that your upstream provider gives you NNTP XFER rights, not just read & post. Of course, saying Cnews is easier to setup than INN is like saying that sculpting a replica of Mt. Rushmore is easier than trying to wade through all the Microsoft propaganda. Both are large, complex tasks. For a beginner, your looking at probably a month to two months to do a complete install with all the bugs worked out. (unless you work on the thing 8 hours a day straight for two weeks) There is a lot to understand. You of course understand that it would be probably impossible to pull the entire news distribution down, your only looking here at replicating a handful of groups.