Our Leafnode How-To

OK, I'm a usenet junkie. Leafnode (a tiny local news server) sits between the LAN and the ISP's news server. It does lots of nifty things in the background and provides an exquisitely simple, yet highly effective, RegEx filter/killfile. Maybe it's just me but Linux news clients don't seem to handle posts to moderated groups very gracefully. When posting to NANAB, for example, knode sort of hangs until it times out, showing the post as failed and leaving it in the outbox. With leafnode, that problem is gone (or at least not visible). Leafnode is suitable as a stand-alone, to take advantage of the filtering. Anyway (FWIW): http://www.tqmcube.com/leafnode.htm There are links to the RPM I compiled (the Fedora Extras RPM is outdated) and a simplified configuration file (the distributed config seems spectacularly disorganized). Comments, suggestions, edits, raves and rants are certainly welcome OFF LIST so that I'll actually read them. List traffic has been rather heavy lately. -- * Eliminate Spam: http://www.TQMcube.com/spam_trap.htm * RBLDNSD HowTo: http://www.TQMcube.com/rbldnsd.htm * Multi-RBL Check: http://www.TQMcube.com/rblcheck.htm