Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vixie!childers From: childers@vixie.UUCP (Richard A. Childers) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: A perfect Usenet site - help needed. Message-ID: <894@vixie.UUCP> Date: 30 Jun 88 06:07:00 GMT References: <1874@m2-net.UUCP> Reply-To: childers@vixie.UUCP (Richard A. Childers) Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Francisco Lines: 37 In article <1874@m2-net.UUCP> alexb@m-net.UUCP (Alex Beylin) writes: >So here is the question: what do I have to have/do/get/learn to get >a Usenet site going. I have quite a few options for a feed ... Two options. 1) Get the standard distribution of rnews, say, 2.11. - unpack it and unpack the news.tar image - cd into the resulting 'doc' directory - modify the Makefile as needed - generate each document as needed 2) Get a manual from someone who's bothered to attempt to externalize their experience(s). Reilly & Associates seem to have done a nice job with their set on UUCP and Netnews, Volume 1 on Using, Volume 2 on Abusing, ah, I mean Administrating. They are slightly expensive, you'd be best off ordering them directly. Reilly & Associates 981 Chestnut Street Newton, MA 02164 1-800-338-NUTS, or 617-527-4210 in Mass. ( VISA, MC, et caet. ) No, I have no relationship whatsoever with this group of people at all except as a satisfied reader. -- richard -- "The leach's kiss, the squid's embrace, {crash,hoptoad, The prurient ape's defiling touch: ptsfa,uunet}! And do you like the human race ? childers@vixie.UUCP No, not much." -- Aldous Huxley, 'Ape And Essence'