[H-GEN] Humbug news server

[Robert Brockway]

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

Hi.  My name is Rob & I'm a news junkie.

> Sounds like you want to run leafnode.  It pretends to be a normal

I ran leafnode for several years but in the end moved away from it.  It
had a few minor bugs (probably solved now) and would only pull down info
on groups touched within the last x days.  This is good for bandwidth
conservation, but doesn't suite members of the "now" generation very well.

In the end I went for another solution:

Suck & INN. Suck pulls the news down (acting as a client) and feeds it
into INN.  This give you a full featured nntp server to use.  I also fed
mailing lists into INN for a couple of years.  Later this proved to be too
bandwidth intensive (since it pulls full groups down) so as usenet grew I
went for another solution:

Until about 2 weeks ago I used nntpcache.  This software is subject to
non-GPL licencing but is free for "unix hobbyists" or some such.  I got an
email from the author last year and simply had to reply advising him that
I was indeed a hobbyist and was using nntpcache for personal consumption
only.  Never got a response from him so I guess he was happy with this.

Nntpcache is a great tool overall.

Bandwidth allowing I'd like to go back to using suck & INN.  Now I'm on
cable here in Canada (no bandwidth ceilings or volume charging) I'll have
to look into it.  Right after I buy a new box & install Debian on it :)

Rob

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