[H-GEN] Humbug news server

[David Findlay]

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> HUMBUG itself does not run a news server, although it has been suggested a
> number of times over the years.  Several HUMBUG-connected people to
> gateway the HUMBUG mailing lists onto their own news servers, which is not
> quite what you want.
>
> If retention of articles is the problem, then I'd suggest that you run
> your own newsserver solely for the newsgroups that you are interested in,
> using something like leafnode (search freshmeat.net).

Yep I've done that before. The difficulty is posting. Finding an open posting 
enabled server nowadays is rather difficult to say the least. Even if you do 
find one, sooner or later it's closed. Is it possible to get a posting only 
feed ihave type peering? Thanks,

David

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