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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> My ISP's news server (news.cableone.net) does not allow posting. I |
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> wanted to set up my own news server so that I could both get nntp/news |
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> data and post to newsgroups. I found a howto at www.tldp.org and have |
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> been following it. The howto said to open leafnode/config (I copied |
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> mine frim /etc/leafnode/config.example to /etc/leafnode/config) and set |
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> the server variable to be equal to my ISP's news server. Herein lies my |
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> problem. The comment in the file above the server variable assignment |
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> is: |
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> ## This is the NNTP server leafnode fetches its news from. |
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> ## You need read and post access to it. Mandatory. |
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> I don't have post access to news.cableone.net - That's why I'm doing |
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> this. Is there a way around this, or can anyone make suggestions for |
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> setting up a news server that can both read and post to Usenet groups? |
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Setting up a new server is a non-trivial task. |
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If you just want to read and post messages you might be better off getting |
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an account from Giganews. |
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