From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) Subject: Re: INN, Anyone? (How do I send news batches via NNTP???) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:05:20 GMT
Charles Fee <CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>I grabbed C-news, and it appears to be set up to use UUCP. The sources and
>manpages suggest INN is really the program I'm looking for. Has this been
>successfully ported yet to Linux? I'll likely try to work on it if it hasn't
>as it appears to be what I need.
I'm unaware of a port of INN to linux, but I'd be interested in seeing
how it compares to C-news if anybody gets it ported.
>As I am quite the neophyte at such things, and really only need outgoing
>news (I read via NNTP so I don't use news spool files) is there a simpler
>way to do this? Can C-news (which seems to work fine, and installed very
>smoothly) be used for NNTP batching? Am I missing something brutally
>obvious? If so, feel free to flame me.
There are thousands (really!) of C-news sites out there running NNTP.
Just grab a copy from your favorite archive site and install it.
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I saw on the news that Clinton, Gore and the Mrs. came down the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the tune of 'Fanfare for the Common
Man' to go to their $30,000,000 inaugural festivities...hmmmm.....