> How much disk space does the caching program require? Is it tunable? What > sort of algorithms do you use to determine which groups are being read > locally by which users? disk space is hard to calculate. 100Mb-1G is reasonable. Depends a lot on if you permit bin groups > We would like to have a single server, running the caching program on it > and having some local news groups. But I see a problem there, becuase your > program will probably want to communicate with NNTP servers via the NNTP > port, but there can be only one program that listens to the port. So > perhaps we will hve to stop running local groups. What do you think? You just run inn on (say) port 120 and then nntpcache uses localhost:120 for the localgroups > [...] > please call my assistant Wildfire [...] You have an assistant called Wildfire? She sounds very assisting. -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | 0619737CCC143F6DEA73E27378933690 | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
