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Borg  <vladimip@iceonline.com*> writes:
> Why cnews? ICEonline had cnews and it sucked: was slow, missed
> articles once in a while, didn't recognize control messages (such as
> when you want to cancel your articles) and so on. Since they upgraded
> ro INN, news are much smoother.

Apparently the people at ICE were incompetent (and/or your newsreading
software was broken), as Cnews suffers from none of those problems.
I've been running it for a couple years on my home Linux box with a
5MB/day feed and had zero problems.  I really like the way it does
everything via cron and leaves no daemons running.

I have installed and maintained both INN and Cnews systems, and both
have their strengths and weaknesses.  INN is really nice if you're doing
a lot of maintenance, as is often necessary at a big site with a full
feed.  IMO though, it is overkill for a small personal feed.

> I'd recommend you try "suck", that's a good program to retreive news
> to your disk from your ISP.

Suck is aptly named.  I use UUCP for news, which is much more efficient
over a dialup connection.  I do use NNTP for outgoing news, as its
low-speed/high-latency inefficiencies are not such a problem for a few
dozen articles per day.

> Another option is to use IP masquerading (sp?),

I use this myself, and find it quite handy, but for news reading
purposes it would result it a much greater amount of online time than
with a local spool.  Getting a small news feed, if done right, can be a
great way to reduce your online fees if you read a few newsgroups
avidly.  And are willing to overcome the learning curve of running your
own news system, of course.

If you have specific questions Gordon, I'd be happy to help you via
private mail.  Starting with the code John suggested would probably be a
good idea.  I believe the best place to get virgin Cnews sources would
be ftp.uu.net somewhere under the /networking/news directory.  As I
recall, Slackware at least comes with both INN and Cnews packages; I'm
not as familiar with other Linux distributions.

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