[H-GEN] Humbug news server

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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David Findlay <david at davsoft.com.au> writes:

> 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,

Sounds like you want to run leafnode.  It pretends to be a normal
newsreader to your ISP's news server, and pretends to be a server for
you locally.  Group expire times can be set globally and on a
per-group basis.

It's not fast and not infinitely configurable, but it is *really*
simple and works almost out of the box, practically transparently.

I use it locally to read and post, and to permanently archive various
groups into a database before they expire from my server.

jason
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