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Re: usenet access and the future of comp.sys.apple2
On 2010-10-27, Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > I have a hunch, though, that Telus won't be the last ISP to drop
> > USENET.
>
> FWIW, most Linux systems make having your own Usenet server a pinch to
> install and run now; I did it with a Debian system recently (an
> 'embedded MIPS' 92MHz device with 32MB ram and a 2GB SD Flash card) and
> was rather shocked at how little manual configuraton I had to do.
>
> That machine picks up articles from several international news servers,
> and feeds them out to my local freenet, improving their feed at the same
> time as my articles go out. Most definitely worth doing.
>
I would be somewhat interested in learning how to do that. Could you suggest
some decent google terms?