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From: jbuchana@hybiss.delcoelect.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: news server
Date: 14 Feb 1997 13:51:12 GMT
Organization: Courts of Chaos Research Center
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David Malone (dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
: Most all unix news servers will run on FreeBSD.
: I'd check out news.software.nntp to see what one you
: want. Alot of people use inn - though it may be over
: kill in some cases.

That's what I thought, so I wrote pnews (spools news obtained with
suck), which is available at:

http://www.iquest.net/~jbuchana/computer.html

I've run it under Linux and SunOS, I'd be quite interested to hear
whether it will compile and run under freebsd. I do have plans to
install freebsd and try it myself, but I've got several projects ahead
of that...


Jim Buchanan        c22jrb@dawg.delcoelect.com        jbuchana@iquest.net
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