Brett Robertson wrote:
> I'm looking at using NNTPCache to replace INN in the office, but my upstream
> newsfeed/news server won't supply the overview.fmt, active, active.times or
> newsgroups files that NNTPCache wants for initialization.
>
> My news provider informs me that they won't supply those files because it
> reduces the possibility of denial of service attacks. (I can see their point
> considering the number of dweebs they provide news services to.)
I do not. I think your news providor is going too far. Complain with
them that they use abnormal policies. But i don't get it completely,
they *do not offer access to the active file* ?? Then nobody can read
news with them ! Isn't this the news-feed vs. news-read issue ? Explain
to them that you no longer want a feed but instead want read access.
> Is there any way to make NNTPCache use these files to build its
> database/cache so that I can get it up and running?
err.. not by plain configuration.
regards,
Hans Lambermont
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