Hurm, this might sound Really Important(tm), but I thought I'd post here anyway. I just finished a few utilities for NNTPCache which I use for my news machine "news.bogus.net". It's only a small IPX running SparcLinux with 2GB of disk where I collect news from several servers around the world. The problem with this, is, of course, to be sure where the "best" server is. i.e. where does one get alt.test from? Server 1,2,3 or 4? The little Perl utility compares N number of active files and generates output prepared for the nntpcache.servers file. It is available from ftp://ftp.bogus.net/nntpcache/compareservers.tar.gz Maybe some of you will have use for it. Regards, Tor Houghton.
