ex****@hope.cz (Lad) wrote in
news:81*************************@posting.google.co m:
I have a program that can send posts to a news server.The problem is
that I must find a free usenet(news) server that allows posting, which
is not easy. For this reason I would like to make a modification in my
program so that the program can act in a similar way how real news
server, that is to spread the new posts to another news server. But I
do not have much knowledge about the way how news server chooses
another news server to send it's new posting.
Can anybody give me a hint( idea)?
If you are running on Windows and just want a news server for testing, get
hold of a copy of Hamster (
http://tglsoft.de/), this will act as both news
server and news client and lets you set up your own local newsgroups.
If you meant that you actually want a free news server to post to real
newsgroups, then sign up with news.individual.net. You have to agree to
some reasonable terms and conditions, but it is free.
Real news-servers transfer news between each other by having a list of
servers to which they will forward news they have received, so to run a
real news server you need a peering agreement with an existing server, and
you aren't going to get that. What you can do though is to write a program
which works in the same sort of way as Hamster: i.e. it acts as a client to
one or more upstream news-servers while also acting as a server. This isn't
suitable for running a full news feed but works well when you have
comparatively few newsgroups.
