Re: Chinese spammers...

JosephKK wrote:
On Sat, 02 May 2009 14:32:48 +1000, Bob Larter <bobbylarter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

JosephKK wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:19:40 -0700, dplatt@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Platt)
wrote:

In article <epi1v4t2o16atd0veuqlskop1d8uf0kg2q@xxxxxxx>,
Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What does "...just run a local NNTP server..." mean?

Proxy server like NewsProxy? Or is there some other way to have your
own NNTP server?
Anybody can install and run their own NNTP server. NNTP clients
(newsreader/poster programs) and servers use exactly the same
protocol to talk among one another... they all use NNTP!

It's possible to run a full-fledged NNTP server (e.g. B-News or
C-News) on a PC-class machine. However, there are smaller servers
which are better suited for "leaf" use (e.g. where you're getting all
of your inbound news from one or two other sites, where you originate
only a limited number of news articles, and where you don't act as a
transit site i.e. you don't automatically offer all the articles you
get from site A out to site B, and vice versa).

One popular package for such "leaf" use is, by no amazing stretch of
the imagination, called "leafnode". I run it myself, and it works
very nicely indeed. Among its features:

- Reasonably effective filtering. I've got mine configured to drop
all articles originating on certain wide-open and anonymous
servers, and to drop articles by certain posters or from certain IP
address ranges. I never see 'em.
- It enables and disables fetching of newsgroups automatically, based
on the reading habits of the user(s) who subscribe to it. If I
subscribe to a new newsgroup, all I'll see is a "placeholder"
article... but less than an hour later it'll have downloaded the
most recent few hundred articles in that newsgroup from my primary
server. If I stop reading a newsgroup, it'll "notice" the
inactivity after about a week and stop fetching new articles.

I used to run a full-fledged local news server, but Leafnode has been
so trouble- and maintenance-free that I no longer bother.
Since i run linux at home, using leafnode is specifically of interest
to me. However i have some atypical requirements (userauth) that is
not well supported and i am having some trouble finding source
packages for SUSE-10.3.
?
Why not just download a tarball & install it by hand?
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/>

Several very bad experiences with doing so. Goddamn on branding
enginnering. Can you say dependancy hell?

I wouldn't have thought that leafnode would be that bad, seeing as it doesn't have a GUI, or any other fancy requirements.
<rummages> Hm, it does want a few things:
<http://packages.debian.org/unstable/news/leafnode>
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libc0.3 (>= 2.9) [hurd-i386]
GNU C Library: Shared libraries
also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
dep: libc6 (>= 2.2) [hppa, i386, mips, mipsel]
GNU C Library: Shared libraries
also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
dep: libc6
GNU C Library: Shared libraries
also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
dep: libpcre3 (>= 7.7)
Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - runtime files
dep: logrotate
Log rotation utility
dep: openbsd-inetd
The OpenBSD Internet Superserver
or inet-superserver
virtual package provided by inetutils-inetd, openbsd-inetd, rlinetd, xinetd
dep: tcpd
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What package manager does SUSE use?

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