On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:52:35 +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > My ISP blocks NNTP traffic.
Wow... is the ISP giving you any good reason for such policy? > To get round this, I propose to use my Squeze VPS, which has direct > access to the Internet, to collect news articles from a few selected > groups, and access these over SSH (or something like that). Just an additional idea. There are also NNTP servers that can be contacted via nntps:// and so using a different port (usually 563, instead 119) that could have been not blocked by your ISP and thus you can access directly from your computer :-? > Can anyone advise me on which package(s) to install, bothe on my > desktop, and on the VPS? If you want to read the messages directly from the VPS server, you will have to get a connection (via shh or by using a VNC, depending on your needs) and then choose the desired newsreader client program (text or GUI based, there are many options). If you are planning in setting up a newsserver at the VPS side to act as a caching news proxy, "leafnode" used to be a good option. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.11.29.18.15...@gmail.com
