Re: newbie Usenet config question
From: Dave Hathaway (davehathaway_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/30/04
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Date: 29 Jul 2004 15:45:06 -0700 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
"Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote in message news:<2nnPr-4Ls-49@gated-at.bofh.it>...
> On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned:
> > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of
> > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when
> > roadrunner is not jam packed.
>
> I can't answer your actual configuration questions, but have you looked
> at leafnode? It seems to provide the functionality you want. Just set
> up a fetchnews cronjob for whenever you'd rather pull it.
>
> --
> monique
>
> Ask smart questions, get good answers:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I did look briefly at leafnode during a moment of despair. cnews+suck
looked so easy to configure that I thought I would stick with it. I
even dselect'd leafnode, but ultimately didn't grab it. Maybe I
should have. Maybe I will.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Dave
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