Re: NNTP server

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Davies
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Can anyone advise me on which package(s) to install [for NNTP], bothe > on my desktop, and on the VPS? I'd strongly recommend leafnode for the NNTP server - but make sure you go for version 2.0.0.alpha rather than the "stable" version 1.11. (It's been in alpha status fo

Re: NNTP server

2011-11-29 Thread Bob Brewer
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > My ISP blocks NNTP traffic. To get round this, I propose to use my > Squeze VPS, which has direct access to the Internet, to collect news > articles from a few selected groups, and access these over SSH (or > something like that). > > Can anyone advise me on which packa

Re: NNTP server

2011-11-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:52:35 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > My ISP blocks NNTP traffic. To get round this, I propose to use my > Squeze VPS, which has direct access to the Internet, to collect news > articles from a few selected groups, and access these over SSH (or > something like that). > >

Re: NNTP server

2011-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:52:35 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > My ISP blocks NNTP traffic. Wow... is the ISP giving you any good reason for such policy? > To get round this, I propose to use my Squeze VPS, which has direct > access to the Internet, to collect news articles from a few selected >

Re: NNTP server.

1999-12-03 Thread Peter Schuller
> I want to install an NNTP server and news reader so that I can read some > news groups I am interested in. The machine I have runs on Hamm, and has > very little free disk space (about 145 M in /usr and 20 M in /var). > However, I am interested only in a few newsgroups, mainly comp.text.tex. > Co