[vox-tech] create news server

Jeff Newmiller vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 7 May 2002 08:15:25 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 7 May 2002, Patrick Stockton wrote:

> My small little local cable provider doesn't have a news server and I was
> wondering how hard it would be to configure up a news server on my linux box
> to follow the three or four news groups I'm interested in following.  Is
> this something I should even bother looking in to or is there an easier way
> to do this?

a) groups.google.com

b) use google to fund a free public server - I punched in "news server
public" and came up with dozens of possibilities

c) optional: once you have completed b, you might consider trying leafnode
to optimize your newsreading experience.

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