[plug] New PLUG news server

[Bernd Felsche]

Cameron Patrick <cameron at cp.yi.org> writes:
>On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:57:55 +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:

>>> Cameron Patrick wrote:
>>>> As you may have gathered from past posts to this mailing list, there has
>>>> been some interest in setting up a PLUG NNTP server.  Well, now we
>>>> actually have one, and it seems to mostly work.
>> 
>>> Very nice.. Now, about access for those of us who have port 119 blocked ?

>> You still have the mailing list.

>Or you could try port shameless.plug.org.au:1190, it goes to the same
>place.

How did you hack that? xinetd of port forwarding?

One of the other things I didn't have time to play with was nntps
(nntp over TLS/SSL) for those who don't like sending passwords in
clear text. Finding a newsreader that talks the protocol is another
fettle of kish altogether.


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