* Binand Raj S. [linux-india] <07/06/01 15:11 +0530>:
> My method of taking a feed from newsroom.cqu.edu.au will not work for
> you if you want to give users post access. You need to get a proper
> feed from someone - VSNL has a server (news.vsnl.net.in) - but I think
> it is an antique one, running some old version of innd. Send VSNL a
news.vsnl.net.in is a pretty good version - at least it doesn't allow open
posting to all and sundry. Only thing is it has a lousy newsfeed and
propogation times ...
> nntpget can be used to fetch all articles that are newer than the
> timestamp on a given file. So I used a directory full of files (one
> per newsgroup), and a script that would touch the file once all new
> articles from a newsgroup were fetched.
fetchnews. and send using [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar.
> BTW, how many groups do you want to host? News hosting requires lots
> of bandwidth and disk space.
Someone (who works in a commercial nntp server provider) estimated that a
_full_ newsfeed would take care of at least 6 T-1s of bandwidth.
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