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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!usenet From: Eric Yagerlener <eyager@wolfden.wolfden.novagate.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NNTP help Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:55:33 GMT Organization: Novagate Communications Lines: 23 Sender: eyager@novagate.com (Eric Yagerlener) Message-ID: <5o4tao$j80@tofu.alt.net> References: <339d8b75.7748544@news.gol.com> <slrn5pu9qa.25a.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> <EBsuMC.4xs@nonexistent.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970424; i386 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43035 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. 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. eyager@novagate.com