[rescue] newsgroups on an SS/5...

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:06:38AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> We work on projects with a development lifecycle of 6-10 weeks, with a
> small, geographically dispersed team (developer/Validators in NJ,
> Project Manager in UK or SF).
> My thought would be to set up a small newsserver with local *only*
> newsgroups, called something like:
>     companyX.AB12345
>     companyX.BB65903...

Easy.  Did this @ COMCO.

> Anyone have pointers to an appropriate document/readme/FAQ/whatever?

Email me off-list and I'll get ya going.

> I assume hardware requirements would be minimal (like *any* SS/5 or
> better, w/sufficient RAM), since it is unlikely there would ever be more
> than a handful of users at a time, and I would like to make setup/config
> as easy as possible.

Heh.  I ran a "local" groups collection plus a limited feed (selected
groups, no binaries) on a SS2 w/64meg and Solaris 2.5.1... it ran *fine*.
For local-groups-only, even a SS1 would work.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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