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Starting Your Usenet Newsfeed

Definitions

• News Server Software
  Allows receiving and sending of NNTP (news) packets.
  
  
• News Reader Software
  Allows users to organize news in a consistent and meaningful way.

Software Sources

News reader software is available in the readers directory and news server software is available in the servers directory on:

ftp://ftp.psi.com/pub/usenet/src/

Examples

Here are some set ups that are good guidelines to follow. Remember, you need twice as much disk space as news volume for each day of expire. A minimum of 32-64 Megs of RAM is needed to run news efficiently.

Sun OS/Sparc20
INN
full feed of news
at least 64 M of RAM
3 day expire
8 G of disks available for news

Sun OS/Sparc1
INN
half feed of news
at least 64 M of RAM
3 day expire
6 G of disk available for news