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Annotation of pkgsrc/news/suck/DESCR, Revision 1.3

1.1       zuntum      1: The primary use for suck is to feed a local INN or CNEWS server, without
                      2: the remote NNTP feeding you articles.  It is designed for a small, partial
                      3: news feed.  It is NOT designed to feed 10,000 groups and 3 Gigs of articles
                      4: a day.
                      5:
                      6: This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP server to your
                      7: local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server.
                      8:
1.2       jmmv        9: The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own INN/CNEWS site,
1.1       zuntum     10: controlling where you get your news, and where you post outgoing articles.
                     11: Suck/rpost use only standard NNTP commands that are used by your favorite
                     12: news reader (tin, xvnews, strn) such as POST and ARTICLE.  If you can use tin
1.3     ! rillig     13: or xvnews against a NNTP site, than you can use Suck/Rpost.