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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: INN, Anyone? (How do I send news batches via NNTP???)
- References: <93018.234550CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:05:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.010520.894@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- 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.
-
- --
- ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
- 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.....
-