Re: News server software

1997-11-16 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 12:56:27PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: : : Ah! Well, with a few thousand customers ... hmmm, separate your news into : feeder and reader machines. Run INN on the feeder(s) which handle your remote : newsfeeds and leafnode feeds to the reader machines. cnews + nntpd + msgidd

Re: News server software

1997-11-15 Thread George Bonser
Ah! Well, with a few thousand customers ... hmmm, separate your news into feeder and reader machines. Run INN on the feeder(s) which handle your remote newsfeeds and leafnode feeds to the reader machines. cnews + nntpd + msgidd is still PLENTY fast enough for the reader machines. As a matter of fa

Re: News server software

1997-11-15 Thread Shaleh
As an ISP with a few thousand customers, I guess that qualifies me as bigger than cnews. I have just been informed that my news server is not beefy enough at only 96mb of RAM and an 8 gig hard drive. Oh well. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

RE: News server software

1997-11-15 Thread George Bonser
cnews is available as a debian package. if you are a small site, newsx might halp you. I use cnews + nntpd (recompiled with msgidd support) and nntplink to maintain the nntp feeds. For my small number of feeds, I find cnews much more stable and resource friendly than inn. It tends to run for month

Re: News server software

1997-11-15 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 09:04:34AM -0500, Shaleh wrote: : What news servers are available other than innd and dnews? I do not : need a packeage, source is fine. : What's wrong with inn? I've been running it for quite some time, and it's very straight-forward. inn 1.7 is very stable and nice a