Re: [cobalt-users] newsgroup server

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quick solution for people who like the newsgroup style

This is what I do in an attempt to keep up w/ cobalt-users, I use SN.
(http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/03/09/952655645.html)

It compiles cleanly on RaQ 2 (Qube 1 running RaQ 2 software)

Toss this line into my inetd.conf:
nntp stream     tcp     nowait root.root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sn/snntpd logger -p news.info

create the group:
/usr/sn/snnewgroup local.cobalt.users

create an alias in /etc/aliases:
cobalt-users:      "|/usr/sn/snmail -sc cobalt.users local."

let sendmail run the binary:
ln -s /usr/sn/snmail /usr/adm/sm.bin/snmail

subscribe cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to cobalt-users

stuff this into my .bash_profile:
export NNTPSERVER=lists.mydomain.com

added this to my .tin/tinrc:
default_mailer_format=mutt -i %F -s "%S" "%T"

Run tin:
tin -r -a (my favorite newsreader)

and use reply-mail when I want to reply to a post, and it launches mutt

I have had this running since April and the 11,000+ posts
to cobalt-users takes up about 26 MB.  I did set this up 
a couple of months ago and might have forgotten a setup or two. :)

Jeff-