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NNRP News Server

Hi,
 Does anyone know of a news server for linux that feeds using NNRP? (feeds off other news servers, but acting as a client, in respect to the server).  Been looking around quite a bit but havent found anything.
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You probably want to use a regular news server (ie. INN, C-News) and then use a download/upload program with that to suit your needs.  postit (upload) and newsflash (download) have pretty good reputations and are quite simple.  They are available from:
http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~markus/
[The page is in German btw]

Other packages that come to mind include suck, slurp.

If you don't want a heavyweight news server, try leafnode which also comes with transmission utilities and is much simpler than INN.  You can find out more about leafnode from:
http://www.troll.no/freebies/leafnode.html

Hope this helps,

Dave
personally, i use suck (i think you can get it from sunsite in /pub/linux/system/news/transport)
It acts as a client to get news and store it on the local news server.

Hi penggu,

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