News Server

[cswiger at mac.com (Chuck Swiger)]

Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Can someone recommend what they are running and why they chose it.
> I am particularly looking for one that doesn't suck alot ;-)
> I hear they all suck, no?

Well, I run INN and I can recommend it, although one needs to spend the time 
to review the documentation to get a handle on what is a large system with 
lots of components.  INN is well-suited for having multiple inbound and 
outbound newsfeeds and dealing with lots of newsgroups.

If you're only interested in a single feed for a few newsgroups (less than a 
thousand, say) than something like leafnode may be easier to get going and 
better suited to that situation.

Be aware that even a partial news feed (say big-7 minus *.binaries) represents 
a lot of traffic and a lot of bandwidth: make sure your feeders support 
"poisoning" newsgroups you don't want or else you can easily saturate a T1.  A 
full feed probably saturates a 10Mbs link, nowadays, so you'd want at least a 
T3...

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-Chuck