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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!brushtail.hna.com.au!ringtail.hna.com.au!mjm From: mjm@hna.com.au.MOOSE (Matt McLeod) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NNTP help Date: 18 Jun 1997 05:36:52 GMT Organization: Hunter Network Association, Newcastle, Australia Lines: 33 Message-ID: <slrn5qet0t.76.mjm@localhost.hna.com.au> References: <339d8b75.7748544@news.gol.com> <slrn5pu9qa.25a.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> <EBsuMC.4xs@nonexistent.com> <5o4tao$j80@tofu.alt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: muff-merkin.hna.com.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43102 On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:55:33 GMT, Eric Yagerlener <eyager@wolfden.wolfden.novagate.com> wrote: >Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote: >> H. Eckert (ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de) wrote: >> : Kurt@pinboard.com (Kurt Keller): >> : > I'm struggling setting up CNews and NNTP from the ports collection on my >> : [...] >> : > I'd be grateful for any suggestions. >> : >> : What's wrong about INN ? > >> I know my upstream provider recommended C News over INN. > >From what I've read, INN is quite a memory hog. One thing that ticks me >off about C News is that whatever posts you make will not contain the >Lines: header. It is basically a trade-off - INN uses more memory, but is quite a bit faster than C News. >BTW, if you are looking for a program that will pull news off and post >news to your ISP's server, try searching for a program called newsx. It >very superior to slurp, and it is much easier on your ISP's news server >because it doesn't use the NEWNEWS command. Many ISPs have disabled the >newnews command, so slurp might not work at all. Newsx is absent from the >ports collection. For a small leaf-node server, leafnode is a good choice. I don't know if there is a FreeBSD port, but you can get it from http://www.troll.no/ -- Matt McLeod, <mjm(at)hna.com.au> "Please try to understand before one of us dies".