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 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 Distribution Documentation
- RumorMill Advanced Functions
- Press Material
- Mailing List - Compare notes on how to get the best out of your server.
- Register RumorMill
The RumorMill distribution is about 950KB in size. For speediest access try one of the sites closest to you:US
Australia Japan Switzerland 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:
- Get RumorMill from ftp.stairways.com
- Get RumorMill from mirrors.aol.com
- Get RumorMill from ftp.amug.org