Julian, Thanks a lot for your reply. > "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. > Thanks. I had found the one at support.nl, but I got confused when the summary for Sep was for 1998. When I looked back, the earlier months are indeed 1999. > > 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. > You're likely right. I am a bit worried since there seems to be substantial changes from 1.0.7.1 (the last version I can find an RPM for). But I will start trying to figure it out... > > 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'. > Well said! ;-) > Cheers, > Julian. > thanks, -Peter
