Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:44:16 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@tgci.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newsgroups Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980216164029.11644A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199802152322.PAA18160@train.tgci.com>
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On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Riley J. McIntire wrote:
> Would innd and nnrpd be all that I need? I've *no* experience with
> news and am aware that setting up a full newsserver is not a trivial
> task. Hopefully what I'm thinking of would not require the
> tuning and planning a commercial feed would.
All you'd have to do is to ensure that any posts to your local
newsgroups do *not* propogate to the USENET at large. One way to do
this is to ensure that posts to your local newsgroups have
Distribution: local
as the default distribution, with help from the "distrib.pats" file.
Your "newsfeeds" file will also need to be altered to not feed local
articles to the outside world.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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