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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!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!amd!news2.amd.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: news server Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 22:36:27 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <bge3e5.ka.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <1997Feb13.173428.17489@nosc.mil> <E5KGuu.1yu@bugs.alisa.org> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35480 In article <E5KGuu.1yu@bugs.alisa.org>, wjjr@bugs.alisa.org (John J. Rushford Jr.) writes: > Steve Koch (skoch@ns2.nctsw.navy.mil) wrote: >: What's a good news server program for FreeBSD? > > I'm using 'cnews' and 'suck'. Both packages are found on the FreeBSD CD's. I just started using leafnode a few days ago, and I like it very much (using it to post this, in fact). May not be right for you, depending on your needs, but for personal use, or smallish sites, it's great. Very easy to setup (*much* easier than, say, INN), and once up and running requires virtually *no* maintenance. It also has the interesting feature that it "monitors" your news reading, noting which groups you've been reading and which you've been ignoring (the NNTP daemon and the "fetch" program work very closely together), sucking in articles only for the "interesting" groups (ignoring even your subscribed groups, if you haven't been reading them for a while). NNTP downloads from the upstream server are done very efficiently, as well. Only new articles in "interesting" groups are fetched. Crossposts are only fetched/stored once. The active file is only fetched at preset intervals, to update the local list of newsgroups periodically (unfortunately, there's no check for new groups). I've managed to port version 1.0 (the latest), but it's not in a "submittable" form yet. Soon as I have time, I'll clean it up and hand it over to the ports collection. Check out the author's page at: http://www.troll.no:80/freebies/leafnode.html -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads