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The primary use for suck is to feed a local INN or CNEWS server, without
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the remote NNTP feeding you articles. It is designed for a small, partial
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news feed. It is NOT designed to feed 10,000 groups and 3 Gigs of articles
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a day.
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This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP server to your
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local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server.
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The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own INN/CNEWS site,
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controlling where you get your news, and where you post outgoing articles.
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Suck/rpost use only standard NNTP commands that are used by your favorite
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news reader (tin, xvnews, strn) such as POST and ARTICLE. If you can use tin
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or xvnews against a NNTP site, than you can use Suck/Rpost.
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