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From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
Newsgroups: news.admin.peering
Subject: Re: Beginner at running Inn2, looking for a peering connection for
 a private news server
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:32:06 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: My own, such as it is
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:54:07 +0200,
  Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:
>  Hi Sirius,
> 
> > 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.
> 
>  Nice!
> 
> 
> > 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 would recommend the use of pullnews, which is more 
>  configurable and probably more used than nntpget:
>     https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/pullnews.html

I've had quite good results with leafnode.

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Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA