adler@around.caltech.edu (B. Thomas Adler) (01/23/91)
Hello all!
I'm part of a small group of people managing a cluster of workstations,
and due to the volume of mail passing between us it was suggested that we
might create a local newsgroup for the mail instead.
This seems like a great idea to us, but we'd prefer to make it available
only on our cluster of machines rather than everyone reading news at our
main nntp server. So my question goes... Is it possible to set up an
nntp server so that it receives only a tiny news feed (possibly only one
or two groups), and if an nntp-based-reader (such as nn) tried to access
unavailable groups, the connection would be redirected to the main nntp
server?
The reason this becomes an issue is because we have only a limited (!!)
amount of disk space available, and it is certainly not large enough
to be able to hold a full news feed.
Ideas, solutions, or alternate plans would be highly appreciated...
-thumper!
adler@betwixt.cs.caltech.edu
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