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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
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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".