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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NNTP and Others...
Date: 2 Mar 1997 23:04:23 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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mcurry@fred.net ( ) wrote:
> Would someone please direct me to a source of information on nntp
> set-up, configuration files, and so forth?
I prefer INN. It's in the ports. There's certainly also the good old
Cnews, which might be sufficient for you as well.
> Shucks, I couldn't even find where the
> format of the "active" file is described.
It's described as part of the appropriate news server package (and
strictly spoken, it's a private file format of the news server anyway,
even though it happens to be a de-facto standard).
ACTIVE(5) ACTIVE(5)
NAME
active, active.times - list of active Usenet newsgroups
DESCRIPTION
...
Each line consists of four fields specified by a space:
name himark lomark flags
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