Re: All these "I want squid to cache xyz"

From: Andrew Leahy <A.Leahy@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 12:06:10 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:

> You're right; however, news is currently a *big* problem and there's not
> yet a freeware (not even standard) way of improving bandwidth

You could try "nntpcache". I haven't tried it myself (it's on my list of
things "to try") but the blurb looks very nice! It's supposed to cache
nntp requests for multiple "real news servers", can transparently merge
local newsgroups and remote feeds.

ftp://ftp.nntpcache.org/pub/nntpcache/nntpcache.tgz

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Received on Tue Sep 10 1996 - 19:08:31 MDT

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