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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Aflatoon Aflatooni <aaflatooni@yahoo.com>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Aflatoon Aflatooni <aaflatooni@yahoo.com>wrote:
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>> Can someone point me to what software I need to install in order to provide
>> a usenet service for internal users?
>
>
>
> cd /usr/ports
> make search key=usenet

Or better yet, "nntp".

I think cnews is still the standard server software, but there are a
bunch of alternatives that might be easier for a small installation.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/