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From: Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com>
Newsgroups: news.admin.peering
Subject: Re: Beginner at running Inn2, looking for a peering connection for
 a private news server
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 03:05:52 -0500
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:15:34 +0200
Sirius <sirius@trudheim.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> TL;DR - looking for a peering setup for a single user instance of
> Inn2. In time my kids and wife may join me on Usenet, but that is not
> yet.
> 
> Longer version;
> I learned about and used Usenet some 30 years ago, alongside Fidonet.
> I am getting _very_ tired of the 'modern' interwebs and I want to get
> back into Usenet. And yes, once I figure out why my router is so
> reluctant forwarding port 70, I will be running a Gopher server as
> well.
> 
> Running Inn2 stems from my work where I want/need to keep up with a
> dozen or so linux kernel mailing lists which so happens are available
> via NNTP to read at nntp.lore.kernel.org. But reading them remote was
> very slow, so as any self-respecting geek, the answer was naturally
> to spin up Inn2 and mirror down the lists I wanted so I have them
> locally with a year worth of articles for history.
> 
> Now I would like to get peering so that I have most of the Big8
> locally as well and I can post locally and have it funnel out. I have
> not set up peering before so I may need an extra pointer or two. I
> can guarantee that there will be no spam as the only user is me and
> maybe my immediate family (wife and kids) should they become
> interested which I am not counting on.
> 
> I do not want any binary groups, just the text ones, and if possible,
> I would like to be able to get a backlog from the groups using
> nntpget and a date, so that I have some light reading until they
> start to fill up naturally.
> 
> I am located in Sweden and the server is running Debian 12 and Inn2
> version 2.7.1.
> 

https://www.endofthelinebbs.com/peering.html

My information is there, along with email contact to send yours. I'll
get you setup. 

Thanks,


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