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Subject: Re: Beginner at running Inn2, looking for a peering connection for a
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:54:07 +0200
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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

Also, nntpget relies on the NEWNEWS command, which is not always enabled 
on upstream news servers.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

« Un voyage de mille lieues commence toujours par un premier pas. » (Lao
   Zi)