Hello All!
Thanks for all of the sure-fre and quick responses.
The overwhelming choice was to use either C-News or INN and establish local
newsgroups and not export them. You could also use the rn and nntp commands
and create newsgroups internally, and set up some pointers.
ORIGINAL QUESTION:
> I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but is there a way you can build a
>private news service for in-house use, and then use newsreaders
>to access this service. We have a significant number of software
>developers that are spread out throughout different facilities and they
>wanted a way they can send and receive messages to a general deposit
>location so that everyone can access them. They also wanted to be a
>ble to read the messages in a similar fashion to the various news
>services using a tool such as xnews. Please let me know if the software
>to create this is PD, or shrinkwrap, and where I can get it.
INN can be ftp'd from
nic.near.net:/p/pub/news-software
corax.udac.uu.se:/pub/unix/networking/news/INN
nic.funet.fi:/pub/unix/news/inn
Cnews is probably available from these sources or ftp.uu.net
I am TRULY sorry that I assumed everyone used a mailtool with line wrap.
I will be more considerate next time. Also, I am not currently running
news, for those who asked.
Thanks to:
Jay Lessert jayl@lattice.com
maclean@darth.cs.mcgill.ca (Matthew SAMS)
"Michael (M.A.) Meystel" <MEYSTMA%DUVM.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
bilkerla@pluto.crd.ge.com (Lawrence A. Bilker)
rr6204@moses.ca.boeing.com ( Bob Rutherford 965-0546 )
steve@gec-epl.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane)
peter@jrc.nl (Peter Watkins)
Steve Elliott <se@computing.lancaster.ac.uk>
bern@kleopatra.Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
Seppo J Niemi <zaphod@cs.hut.fi>
Jim Carroll jimc@jts.com
Mike Raffety <miker@il.us.swissbank.com>
bert@prodassur1.penril.com (Bert Robbins)
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
kim@jts.com (T. Kim Nguyen )
rkh@ucsdev.ucs.att.com (Bob Halloran)
Shankar Ishwar shankar@ulysses.att.com
jayl@lattice.com (Jay Lessert)
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Oleg Chaikovsky
Systems & Network Manager
Rockwell International - Downey, CA
Internet: oleg@ddrsrv.dny.rockwell.com
America Online: OlegC@aol.com
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