Re: [boost] Need volunteer to supply Boost NNTP/newsgroup server

From: Jason Stewart (jstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-08 10:41:38

I am willing to try to help on this. I am no expert on NNTP but I have set 
up a private server before. I think we could use my machine for testing but 
I don't know if it can handle the traffic or not. I have a DSL connection 
with 768kbps each way.

I have been experimenting with authenticating posters and readers against a 
database. It should be possible and I have had some success but I'm not 
quite there yet.

I also have never set up a gateway between a mailing list and a NNTP server 
but I understand that mailman has some facilities for this.

Jason

At 10:47 AM 4/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>At 06:09 PM 3/31/2002, David Abrahams wrote:
>
> >Dietmar,
> >
> >The main thing preventing us from making this transition simply and
> >painlessly is lack of expertise. If we can raise the neccessary
> >computing resources, would you be willing to set up the system?
>
>Dave's right.  Normally we could do some private experimentation, learning 
>as we go, and then go public when a service is working properly.
>
>But where Boost doesn't have our own server or Internet connection, we 
>can't do that.  It is very frustrating.
>
>--Beman
>
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