From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 1 19:04:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B09106566B for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmdlnkid@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB848FC08 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so448134fxm.36 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:04:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id :x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version:content-type; bh=AD6jsdCmrr1bUsukts8dcTMattVCuyZ2trtJhTTxxN0=; b=VI82dO+2B45M/LWFZEiSui5oEIlRf5vHnA5XVVzlcnIuHZHs6fZFbfu2OOP/I8hwwP Tyt4B8ghImv+t8+WJCyzrRg2HJoRjlgoQVv/u8k/zVDLsjtfh6aXvad72b0RwH0olzq+ TYZvrnQ8x49Wp9pGTVX8wVXdasBHLgC8fx+hI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; b=Oaee0MUCN60SCaRLwsHIHPXrbd2rxJWbuOTFEHAxzNI0B3KXGh6ul//ONiOy3GBXbI QdoXp5vixv70JYxRNpQgicw2KI5GnH5U86SyNAYLuBoQoUCHlsX7bpbMNtsyORb1CI4Y saZUcifn8MTBoZxWyqHEeMkZH/T8fz5sHTWzs= Received: by 10.86.170.22 with SMTP id s22mr1492726fge.37.1254423859256; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dimension.5p.local (adsl-99-35-15-84.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.35.15.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm12680fgg.19.2009.10.01.12.04.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:04:10 -0400 From: CmdLnKid To: Odhiambo Washington In-Reply-To: <991123400910011110h5cfffa17q4584259a3fe4289a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <832963.74091.qm@web56208.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <991123400910010704x7952ae73h13e1ce68d07a2773@mail.gmail.com> <44eipnurrr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <570307.51852.qm@web56204.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <991123400910011110h5cfffa17q4584259a3fe4289a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0xFAD8B467 X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: D197 8B5A C1BC AD25 33C9 16DF 2C68 DCDE FAD8 B467 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Aflatoon Aflatooni , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usenet configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:04:21 -0000 On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:10 -0000, odhiambo wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > >> What is needed in order to run nntp? How does nntp connect to other news >> servers? Where do you define the news groups that the server would subscribe >> to? >> Any pointers or suggested configuration? >> Thanks > > > You want pple to chew for you then you swallow?:-) > Really that was so insightful it inspired me to respond. I use news/inn for a local WiFi news server for the community around me to connect to that pulls threads from the net and post on local spots for for replies by the community. I can not recommend cnews as for I have no experience with it. INN on the other hand is a pretty big configuration and has a lot of options and knobs to tune so I really would not recommend that if your not up for reading thoroughly through the docs to achieve the proper layout of your news server. When you do understand INN if you decide to use it give me a holler I would be interested to know what your final outcome is. Best regards and good luck. PS: I spent around 2 months on a offline INN server just to understand some of the inn's and outs along with post signing etc. It took about that long before I finally became comfortable with putting it up for public use. -- - (2^(N-1))