[Gllug] News INNd

[Richard Cohen]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:

> Will this run for a few thousand users?

I very much doubt it...  It's meant as a personal or 'workgroup' kind of
level server.

> Kind regards
> Xander

Cheers
Richard

> 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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