RumorMill v1.2

This program is $35 Shareware. RumorMill 1.2 is a free update to Registered users of RumorMill 1.1.

"Its never been easier to spread misinformation!"
"It can fill up my hard disk faster than Anarchie!"

RumorMill is a news (NNTP) server. The News protocol is ideally suited to public discussion, and RumorMill is designed to make it easy to create (and remove) local or shared Newsgroups. RumorMill (and other NNTP) servers can easily be linked together to create a wide spanning communication network.

RumorMill can be Remotely Administered, supports Newswatcher Prefs and Newsrc files and it has a small memory footprint. Amongst other security features RumorMill has Site Restrictions which can be used to prevent off-site (based on TCP/IP address) computers accessing the server.

Features

• Quick and Easy Setup
• Remote Configuration
• Support Multiple Host Servers
• Active Pull (or 'Suck')
• Site Restricitions Security Masks
• User/Password restrictions
• Small Memory Footprint
• Configuration using Newswatcher files
• Streaming support - both receive and send *New*
• Support for moderated groups *New*
• Statistics reports via EMail *New*
• Remote group change reports via EMail *New*
• Article expiration on a per group basis *New*
• Database compaction to recover allocated, but unused, disk space *New*
• News <-> EMail gateway capabilities *New*

RumorMill System Requirements

	RumorMill	RumorMill Setup	Documentation
MacOS	7.0.1 with thread mgr	7.6	n/a
Processor	68K or better	68030 or better	n/a
RAM	2.5MB	2.5MB	Web Browser
Disk	~690KB + databases	~400KB	~220KB

RumorMill Documentation, FAQs and Tutorials

• RumorMill Distribution Documentation
  • Quick Start
  • Documentation
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• RumorMill Advanced Functions
  • Advanced Functions Documentation
• Press Material
  • Press Release
• Mailing List - Compare notes on how to get the best out of your server.
• Register RumorMill

Download RumorMill

The RumorMill distribution is about 950KB in size. For speediest access try one of the sites closest to you:

US

• Get RumorMill from ftp.stairways.com
• Get RumorMill from mirrors.aol.com
• Get RumorMill from ftp.amug.org

Australia

• Get RumorMill from redback.cs.uwa.edu.au

Japan

• Get RumorMill from ftp.HappySize.co.jp

Switzerland

• Get RumorMill from sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch

The archive is in Stuffit format ".sit". You will need a de-archiving utility. We recommend Stuffit Expander 4.0, which is Freeware available at the following URL:

ftp://ftp.aladdinsys.com/pub/