Frog's Support for News
News Server
Intro
The NewsServer is a by-product of the tool (Dnews) that I am now using to inject posts.
Running a full-fledged free NewsServer is *not* my purpose,
so the capabilities have been seriously tweaked
according to my goals and policies.
You just have to configure your NewsClient to use frogadmin.yi.org
on port 119.
No authentication/password is required, but capabilities are restricted
Reading Capabilities (AAM)
I suck AAM from 3 NewsServers and store the pool for 90 days.
You may find this is a great feed for your remailer
client built-in news capability.
That is what my JBN2 uses.
Reading Capabilities (APAS)
I suck APAS from 3 NewsServers and store the pool for 90 days.
I enforced anti-flood/troll rules, and apas melts from thousands posts/day to
a handful posts/day.
I could not live without my personnal home NewsServer when I am abroad on a
slow, pay-per-minute dial-up:
...I just plug my laptop's NewsClient to the frogadmin.yi.org host.
But it is a great use when I am at home, and I just don't need the filth:
...I just plug my computer's NewsClient to 127.0.0.1.
This is my own personnal vision of what I feel worth in
apas.
If you have opinions similar to mine on that matter, you will love
it, you might hate it otherwise.
I am not going to change my reading habits for you,
... you got thousands of NewsServers which provide an untidy apas, you can plug
your computer's NewsClient to.
Reading Capabilities (Other NG)
It is possible, but limited.
For both uses where it is advisable (list of newsgroup/tracking posts)
the WebToNews might be more convenient
than the NewsServer
Posting Capabilities (AAM, APAS)
This is possible, but I don't encourage it,
same as Web2News
Posting Capabilities (Other NG)
This is prohibited, same as Web2News
Filtering
As exposed paragraph after paragraph, my NewsServer does
not hold whole usenet! same as Web2News
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