[Gllug] News INNd

[Xander D Harkness]

Will this run for a few thousand users?

Kind regards
Xander

Bruce Richardson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:04:19PM +0200, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > Hey to all , it was good to meet many at Linux Expo 2001
> >
> > I have seven hours to implement a news server from scratch.  (Well I
> > have the box up and running!!)
> >
> > I have looked all through the docs and there is a lot about running your
> > own news groups.  They do not seem to mention taking feed from an
> > upstream provider.
>
> If all you want to do is serve existing ngs to your users, get Leafnode.
> It's a news proxy.  It only fetches messages from the groups your users
> choose to read from and stops fetching when people stop reading a group
> (time parameters configurable).
>
> It's very simple to set up - you won't need seven hours.
>
> --
> Bruce
>
> Those who cast the votes decide nothing.  Those who count the
> votes decide everything. -- Joseph Stalin
>
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