Re: [TCLUG:23145] accessing newsgroup

[Jason J <jasonj@innominatus.com>]

I have a membership with supernews.com. I think its about $15 a month.



Adam Maloney wrote:

> I've used Leafnode at home - very easy to setup and very efficient.  But
> you still need a news server for it to feed from.  You'll have to try and
> find one of the freebies, but they're becoming scarce because spammers are
> [ab]*using them.
>
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
>
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>
> > > I don't have access to a newsgroup (nntp) server. What is the best
> > > (easiest) way to be able to use pan as my newsreader. Can I run some
> > > daemon that is easy to step up that will just forward nntp requests to the
> > > necessary server -- and let pan to use localhost? The less configuration
> > > the better.
> >
> > do you mean that you want to set up your own news server? if you don't have
> > access to a news server, how will your proxy get to one?
> >
> > leafnode may be what you're looking for. it's a one-way NNTP server (it acts
> > like a news server to the clients; but is a client to the main news server
> > itself). it will dynamically subscribe/unsubscribe from groups, based on
> > whether or not you access them.
> > check freshmeat for URLs.
> >
> > Carl Soderstrom
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> > Real-Time Enterprises
> > (952) 943-8700
> >
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