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From: leon@Cleopatra.hna.com.au (Leon Garde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin,news.admin.misc,news.config
Subject: Re: Posting to a one-way NNTP link
Date: 6 Feb 1995 11:53:51 +1100
Organization: the Hunter Network Association
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Message-ID: <3h3ruv$1vf@cleopatra.hna.com.au>
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NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.hna.com.au

nicholas@binary9.com (Nicholas J. Leon) writes:

>Folks -
>  I have a question.

>  My service provider charges $45 a month for a nntp feed. Since I didn't

an nntp feed would imply that the providers INN produced a list of articles 
to send and will send them via nntp-send.

your service provider is also providing nnrp as an nntpd.
so that you can connect it to , and be a nntp reader.
BUT CAN YOU POST ? this is different to being allowed to do an
INN-to-INN transfer. (its quicker to be allowed to be 
able to feed news to INN straight to its innd, but you can still
post all the news you like using INN's nnrp, 
which you are if you can post to its nntpd.


>want to pay this, I got a copy of "suck" and have successfully connected it
>to INN (1.4sec). Once a day, my news is sucked down and piped to rnews which
>correctly tosses it.

>  Because of this setup I can't post. My question is this: how do I? Is
>there a way to tell INN that I don't have a feeding site but I can post to
>one?
yes, sure. I'm doing it right now.

>  My newsfeeds file looks like this:

>-- begin --
>ME\
>        :*,!junk,!control,\
>        ::


add this

scorch\
        :*,!junk,!control\
        :Tf,Wnm:scorch


where 'scorch' is the host to use , well, its just a symbolic name
at the moment, it could be whatever you like :)


then that creates a file in /usr/spool/news/out.going/scorch

which is the list of articles to send.

I put this line in nntpsend.ctl in /usr/lib/news

scorch:scorch.hna.com.au:1m:-T1800 -t300


and then 

nntpsend is run every so often .. (using cron)

you dont need to run nntpsend with any options if you have the
host setup in the nntpsend.ctl file like above,

or you can put options on the line , which then means nntpsend.ctl is ingored

if you cant post, you will have to be able to send it all somewhere else ...


BUT , I think your service provider will notice that
you are operating like an off-line news host ...
of course, logically you are just reading a lot of news and posting some,

whereas to arrange for an nntp-feed required administration of
batch files and newsgroup lists and things at the providers end,

so I can see the differenece


leon


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leon@cleopatra.hna.com.au
lgarde@scorch.hna.com.au

