[H-GEN] Usenet server software for the poor-of-bandwidth

[David Jericho]

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On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:33:20AM +1000, Christopher Biggs wrote:
> Any recommendations for pull-feed arrangements?    Are there any
> servers that act basically like an on-demand caching server?

Check out leafnode. It functions as basically appears as a full news 
server, offering the full active list of newsgroups, and is farily 
configurable.

The neat feature is that it follows what groups people browse, once they've
been hit, it then can then as a crontab entry, download the headers or 
the full messages to be stored locally.

If it grabs just the headers, when you actually view the message via your
news reader, it'll trot off and happily grab the message itself off the news
server (and cache it locally).

-- 
David Jericho, Systems Administrator
Who's wondering why every single tape backup on the Solaris boxen didn't 
happen last night

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