"Peter Mullarkey" <peter@rocksteady.com> writes: > Hi > > I am new to nntpcache and have been trying to figure out a few > things. I found the archive of the mailing list but it only covers 1998. > > Is there one for this year? The entropy daemon hits! You loose group writability on the nntpcache-users mail archive directory! support.nl and a few other people run on-line web-based nntpcache-users mailing list archives, which hany halfway-decent web-search-engine should be happy to reveal to you. > I want to learn how to package using RPM but given all the config > files and exes I saw go by when I built and installed 2.3.2, it may > be a bit much for me to start. Well, if you take an older rpm as a start, it shouldn't be hard at all. > Finally, I found nntpcache while looking for a caching/filtering app > for nntp - similar to what I use squid for http on my firewall. Is there > a better choice than nntpcache for this limited task? > > thanks in any case, Well, I'm like completely, utterly biased :). But capable of being objective even so. `of course not'. Cheers, Julian.