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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NNTP help
Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:02:40 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5o4tao$j80@tofu.alt.net>,
Eric Yagerlener <eyager@wolfden.wolfden.novagate.com> writes:
> 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.
If you wanna create a port, I'd be glad to add it for you :)
> eyager@novagate.com
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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