From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43947 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [inn] How to have more than one server Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:14:57 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87bsdkw8yc.fsf@anchor.jibsheet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016673601 24741 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2002 01:20:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16nrFI-0006Qh-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:20:01 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16nrAu-0002aA-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:15:28 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:15:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA05701 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:15:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 24508 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2002 01:15:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24503 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2002 01:15:04 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 21 Mar 2002 01:15:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 870 invoked by uid 50); 21 Mar 2002 01:14:57 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:03:02 -0800") Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43947 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43947 Harry Putnam writes: > Thanks for clearing that up. The documentation with inn is massive, but > doesn't really contain an overview that explains explicitly what it does > or can do. At least not in language I understood. The INSTALL file > alone is some 1200 lines, and there are 82 manpages. INN really isn't targetted for the small user or for someone not already very familiar with news. I'd like to increase its friendliness, but it's difficult to do and requires a bunch of infrastructure improvements. Many individual users are probably better off with something considerably smaller, like leafnode. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)