From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 10:56:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA01458 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:56:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA01450 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11659; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 13:49:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 13:49:55 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Stephen Roome cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small contained news server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk For ease of use and performance, you can't beat DNEWS. It costs money though, but we've found the time saved coddling INN was more than worth it. We ditched INN about 3 months ago, and have been running dnews with no problems. It pulls in about 5-7 articles per second. Check out www.netwinsite.com. Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on" -DB On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Stephen Roome wrote: > > I'm looking for a small, low maintainance news server which runs well on > FreeBSD, I've just given up with innd as I'm only planning on running > about 10 internal access only groups with nothing external happening at > all. > > Besides, the port of innd isn't very helpful to those who might have not > got much experience of news. I know news is _The Black Art_, but this is > getting silly, I'm sure it wasn't this difficult last time. > > Steve > > -- > Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. > Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 > WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/ >