I've used Leafnode at home - very easy to setup and very efficient. But you still need a news server for it to feed from. You'll have to try and find one of the freebies, but they're becoming scarce because spammers are [ab]*using them. Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > I don't have access to a newsgroup (nntp) server. What is the best > > (easiest) way to be able to use pan as my newsreader. Can I run some > > daemon that is easy to step up that will just forward nntp requests to the > > necessary server -- and let pan to use localhost? The less configuration > > the better. > > do you mean that you want to set up your own news server? if you don't have > access to a news server, how will your proxy get to one? > > leafnode may be what you're looking for. it's a one-way NNTP server (it acts > like a news server to the clients; but is a client to the main news server > itself). it will dynamically subscribe/unsubscribe from groups, based on > whether or not you access them. > check freshmeat for URLs. > > Carl Soderstrom > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org