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It is intened to supply spool and offline news reading for a configured selection of newsgroups. S-news does the minimum required to maintain a conventional news spool and makes use of suck or newsstar for news transport. PR: ports/69121 Submitted by: Andrey Slusar <vasallia@ukr.net>
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S-news is a simple news server for hosts with one or two users. It is intened
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to supply spool and offline news reading for a configured selection of
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newsgroups. S-news does the minimum required to maintain a conventional news
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spool and makes use of suck for news transport.
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Features
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It provdes a NNTP service and /var/spool/news for local news readers.
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It supports any number of incoming news feeds via NNTP either by IHAVE or
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suck(1).
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Outgoing news feeds are made from locally posted articles and reposted remotly
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by rpost(1).
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It expires articles by how long they have been in the spool.
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It has NNTP access configuration to allow and deny read, post and transfer
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access to remote hosts.
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It is very light weight and relatively easy to configure.
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WWW: http://www.lost.org.uk/snews.html
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