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From: [e-mail] (Mark Linimon)
Subject: Changes to News.software.b Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 07:10:41 GMT
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--- nsbfaq.pp    Fri Mar  4 17:39:39 1994
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! Newsgroups: news.software.b
! X-Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.answers
  Subject: News.software.b Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  Followup-To: poster
  Reply-To: [e-mail]
  Summary: Answers to news software frequently asked questions (periodic posting)
  X-Posting-Frequency: every 4 weeks

  Archive-name: news/software/b/faq
! Version: 1.02 (October 1993)
! Last-Modified: Wed Sep 15 14:57:31 EDT 1993

  This posting provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) encountered
  in news.software.b.
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! Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.answers
  Subject: News.software.b Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  Followup-To: poster
  Reply-To: [e-mail]
  Summary: Answers to news software frequently asked questions (periodic posting)
  X-Posting-Frequency: every 4 weeks

  Archive-name: news/software/b/faq
! Version: 1.08 (March 1994)
! Last-Modified: Fri Mar  4 17:38:15 EST 1994

  This posting provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) encountered
  in news.software.b.
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  A companion posting, "C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"
  <[e-mail]>, provides
  information about commonly encountered dilmemmas specifically related to
! the C News package.  Yet another posting, "Introduction to news.software.b"
! <[e-mail]>, serves as an
! introduction to the group.

  Related postings are maintained by Tom Limoncelli <[e-mail]>:
! "INN FAQ Part 1/3: General Information, how to compile, how to operate";
! "INN FAQ Part 2/3: Tutorial on installing"; and "INN FAQ Part 3/3: Tutorial
! on debugging and adding options"; another is maintained by Rob Robertson
! <[e-mail]> entitled "FAQ:  Overview database / NOV General
! Information."  Another set is maintained by Ian Phillipps <[e-mail]>
! in news.admin.tech.
!
  All these articles are repeated periodically for the benefit of new readers.

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

  Subject: Table of contents.
--- 16,37 ----
  A companion posting, "C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"
  <[e-mail]>, provides
  information about commonly encountered dilmemmas specifically related to
! the C News package.  Yet another posting, "News.software.b: Introduction to
! news.software.b" <[e-mail]>,
! serves as an introduction to the group.

  Related postings are maintained by Tom Limoncelli <[e-mail]>:
! "INN FAQ Part 1/4: General Information"; "INN FAQ Part 2/4: Debugging Guide
! & Tutorial"; "INN FAQ Part 3/4: Operational and Misc. Questions"; and "INN
! FAQ Part 4/4: Appendix A: Norman's install guide".  Another is maintained
! by Rob Robertson <[e-mail]> and entitled "FAQ:  Overview
! database / NOV General Information."
!
  All these articles are repeated periodically for the benefit of new readers.

+ (Another set is being drafted by Ian Phillipps <[e-mail]> for
+ news.admin.technical; at this point this is a "work in progress".)
+
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

  Subject: Table of contents.
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      Subject: Couldn't we just fix articles by rewriting erroneous headers?
      Subject: What do C News and INN do with articles with no Distribution?
      Subject: Wouldn't it save space to compress stored news?
+     Subject: What can I do to prevent running out of inodes in spool?
      Subject: Are there any tools for newsgroup moderators?
      Subject: Has anyone implemented "private" newsgroups using C News or INN?
      Subject: Can the news transport validate cancel messages?
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  known.problems reports installation problems and bugs that have been
  discovered in the current version.  It also includes fixes to those problems.)

+ (See the companion posting, "C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"
+ <[e-mail]>, for information
+ about upcoming releases).
+
  ------------------------------

  Subject: What is the release status of INN?  Where can I get it?
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  The official archive site is ftp.uu.net, networking/news/nntp/inn.  Many
  other sites have copies, too; ask archie.  Look for file inn1.X.tar.Z,
  where "1.X" is the revision.  Patches and new versions made as needed
! and as I have available time.  The next revision will be 1.4; no public
  date.

  [See Tom Limoncelli's FAQs for the latest version and bugfix information.]
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  The official archive site is ftp.uu.net, networking/news/nntp/inn.  Many
  other sites have copies, too; ask archie.  Look for file inn1.X.tar.Z,
  where "1.X" is the revision.  Patches and new versions made as needed
! and as I have available time.  The next revision will be 1.5; no public
  date.

  [See Tom Limoncelli's FAQs for the latest version and bugfix information.]
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  There is a commercially-published book, "Managing UUCP and USENET", from
  O'Reilly and Associates <[e-mail]> ([phone] or [phone]),
  that many readers have recommended.  The latest edition of this book
! discusses the NNTP protocol and the NNTP reference implementation (nntp1.5);
! but it does not talk about INN.

  ------------------------------

  Subject: What's the 'junk' newsgroup for?  Should I propogate it?
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  There is a commercially-published book, "Managing UUCP and USENET", from
  O'Reilly and Associates <[e-mail]> ([phone] or [phone]),
  that many readers have recommended.  The latest edition of this book
! discusses the NNTP protocol and the NNTP implementation maintained by
! Stan Barber, commonly known as the "reference implementation" (nntp1.5);
! but it does not yet talk about INN.  This book has a companion volume,
! "Using UUCP and USENET", that is more oriented to users.
!
! A rewrite of these two books is currently being done by Henry Spencer
! (the C News portion) and Dave Lawrence (the INN portion).  Their book
! will become the volume on both using and managing USENET news; the
! tentative release date is set for late 1994.  (Note: bugging either of
! these busy folks won't get it done faster :-) )  [O'Reilly may rearrange
! the other material into a companion volume that would cover both using
! and managing UUCP; plans are less definitely.]
!
! For the impatient, you can subscribe to the O'Reilly announcements list
! by sending a message to [e-mail] with the first line:
!
! subscribe ora-news Your Name at Your Organization

+ The Subject: line will be ignored.
+
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  Subject: What's the 'junk' newsgroup for?  Should I propogate it?
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  (This is the most relevant of this set, to this newsgroup.  Note: an effort
  is currently underway to revise and update RFC 1036 to better reflect modern
!b for word on this.)

  977   Kantor, B.; Lapsley, P.  Network News Transfer Protocol.  1986
        February; 27 p. (Format: TXT=55062 bytes)
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  (This is the most relevant of this set, to this newsgroup.  Note: an effort
  is currently underway to revise and update RFC 1036 to better reflect modern
! practice.  A *long* (53pp.) draft proposal of this "Son-of-RFC-1036" is
! available for anonymous ftp from zoo.toronto.edu in file pub/news.txt.Z.  As
! above, FTP during their peak hours (12h00-17h00 Eastern) is not encouraged.)

  977   Kantor, B.; Lapsley, P.  Network News Transfer Protocol.  1986
        February; 27 p. (Format: TXT=55062 bytes)
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+ Subject: What can I do to prevent running out of inodes in spool?
+
+ When you lay out your spool file system (the one that holds the actual
+ articles) with newfs, you'll need to change its defaults to account for
+ the different ratio of typical file size/number of inodes typically
+ found on news spool disks.
+
+ Articles typically run about 3000 bytes per inode.  The default for a
+ UFS (BSD fast) file system is 2K bytes/inode which should be sufficient.
+ But "mkfs" will silently limit the number of inodes in a cylinder group
+ so some disk formats wind up with too few inodes.  Using smaller cylinder
+ groups is a solution to this problem.  The following is a typical command
+ for creating a new spool/news file system:
+
+     newfs -c 8 -f 512 -b 4096 diskname
+
+ Using a cylinder group size of 8 allows up to double the number of inodes
+ that the default group size of 16 permits.  Note that using 512 byte
+ fragments will allow about 20% more articles than the default 1K due to
+ the small size of the average article.  In any case verify the bytes/inode
+ is below 3K before using the file system!
+
+ Old style Unix file sytems are limited the 65K inodes total.  The
+ only work around is to create several smaller partitions such that
+ each file system has <= 3Kbytes/inode.  Then split the news groups
+ into the various file system to equalize usage as evenly as possible.
+
+ ------------------------------
+
  Subject: Are there any tools for newsgroup moderators?

  Kent Landfield <[e-mail]> maintains an archive of
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  Thanks to the following for contributions, additions, corrections, and updates:

      Rick Adams <[e-mail]>
+     Jerry Aguirre <[e-mail]>
      David Beckemeyer <[e-mail]>
      Mark Brader <[e-mail]>
      Geoff Collyer <[e-mail]>
+     Christopher Davis <[e-mail]>
      Paul Eggert <[e-mail]>
      Marc G Fournier <[e-mail]>
      Kenneth Herron <[e-mail]>
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      David Lawrence <[e-mail]>
      Tom Limoncelli <[e-mail]>
      David Myers <[e-mail]>
+     Ian Phillipps <[e-mail]>
      Rich Salz <[e-mail]>
      Henry Spencer <[e-mail]>

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Mark Linimon / Lonesome Dove Computing Services / [e-mail]
         "He pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow,
          and he played a little tune called the New Cut Road."