Cyrus to USENET gateway

[Ken Murchison]

Florian Hars wrote:

> Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>> Why not just have the newsserver feed directly to Cyrus?
> 
> 
> Things aren't what they used to be. Typical providers will offer their 
> clients NNRP access with NEWNEWS disabled (if they offer news at all), 
> there is no talk of "feeding".
> 
> Trying to get suck <url:ttp://home.comcast.net/~bobyetman/index.html> to 
> cooperate with cyrus would probably be easier that reimplementing suck 
> within cyrus.

At first glance, I think suck will work just fine.  You'll have to 
create the sucknewsrc file manually, since Cyrus doesn't use the typical 
files used by news servers (active, etc).

I'll do some testing locally with suck when I get a chance.

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