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I'm looking to setup a NNTP cache/proxy server primarily for header caching on linux. Which one is recommended?
My requirement is that the News NNTP cache and proxy server must be able to cache headers without downloading the articles. i.e only download articles if requested.
There is a mention about Caching/...
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How to access Usenet postings from the earliest days of Usenet? (i.e. the 1980s)
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I've been browsing through comp.lang.forth usenet posts and have found some fascinating gems such as this one here on minimal Forth implementations.
Makes me wonder if it's possible to ...
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Delete old usenet threads
Logged in at Google, I can delete old messages in Google Groups that were written by me. Is there a way to remove a complete thread that was opened by me (years ago) directly on the NNTP server that ...
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How exactly do usenet/nntp/newsgroups work?
I recently found a new way to share files, and I am curious about how exactly this may work.
For example, I gained access to my ISP's nntp server. Is anything I see on my ISP's server stored on their ...
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What keyboard-friendly news readers exist for OSX? [duplicate]
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Free Usenet reader for Mac OS X
I'm interested in keyboard-navigation-friendly usenet clients for OSX. I have tried (and bought) Unison and Thunderbird, but both of these end ...
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Reading Usenet newsgroups on any computer [closed]
Is there any solution, beside Google Groups, to read Usenet groups (and post to them) from any computer? I am looking for something that is closer to a newsreader, with scores, mark-thread-as-read, ...
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who offers free rss feeds of the most recent usenet messages besides google?
Is there any site, besides groups.google, which offers a free rss feed of the most recent messages for any usenet newsgroup?
I mean a service like the following:
http://groups.google.com/group/news....
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What is the current status of Usenet? [closed]
What is the current status of Usenet? What I mean is, do people still use it often? Is it as big as it once was? Basically, what's happened to it in the last two decades or so?
I understand that ...
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