[leafnode-list] Re: using leafnode with existing spool

Gary R. Schmidt grschmidt at acm.org
Wed Nov 23 11:40:35 CET 2022


On 23/11/2022 11:34, Gary R. Schmidt via leafnode-list wrote:
> On 23/11/2022 08:12, Julian Bradfield via leafnode-list wrote:
>> I read my various mailing list subscriptions by feeding them into what
>> may be the world's last surviving cnews system.
>>
>> I should like to have nntp access to this. Unfortunately, I never
>> saved a copy of nntpd, and I can't find the source anywhere.
>> I want minimal effort, so switching to INN is more work than I want.
>>
>> Can I use leafnode to provide nntp access to a spool managed by
>> another system? (If leafnode can do the indexing, that's good, but I
>> don't want it thinking it can either inject or expire articles.)
>>
>> thanks,
>> JCB
> 
> C-News source tarchive: <http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z>
> 
> Found here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_News>
> 
Oh, I misunderstood, I thought you couldn't find the C-news source, not 
the INN source.

INN is at ISC: <https://www.isc.org/othersoftware/#INN>.  It's still 
being maintained, too, up to version 2.7.0 now.  :-)

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)




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