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> >I am able to get innd up and running, however how do I change its
> >configuration to not send or receive feeds?  In other words, this will
> >be an internal discussion server with unique news groups and not part of
> >USENET.  Only users on this LAN will read and write messages.

> Just don't make any 'real' feeds in your newsfeeds file (stops you
> from sending stuff to other servers), and incoming.conf doesn't allow
> anyone to feed you news. That is, "newsfeeds" has just your "ME:..." line,
> and maybe archive and overview. The default incoming.conf should be OK,
> as it allows no other servers in.

> > I am able to get innd up and running, however how do I change
> its
> > configuration to not send or receive feeds?  In other words,
> this will
> > be an internal discussion server with unique news groups and
> not part of
> > USENET.  Only users on this LAN will read and write messages.

> > Thanks in advance.

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> > Before you buy.

> Hi - it's been awhile since I worked with INN, but most
> sites handle this by establishing a unique prefix for
> internal newsgroups.  AKA - yahoo.questions, yahoo.announce.
> By creating your own prefix, you completely avoid
> the issue of conflicting names with the usenet namespace.
> If for some reason in the future, you wish to bring
> in a real feed - you can do so without causing problems.
> The answer to your real question about not forwarding
> articles onward is simply to modify the newsfeeds file
> or whichever file it is that specifies which groups get
> sent to everyone.  The file starts with a list of all
> well known newsgroup names and then lists for each news
> hosts which groups you forward and disallow.  You can
> just put in a !yahoo on any entries for external
> inn servers there.
> Note that by default there are expiration dates setup
> for newsgroups - most companies want to keep internal
> messages around forever in an archive.
> That's all there is to it!
> Let me know if you have any further questions by emailing

> faq/documentation at www.isc.org!
> Thanks,
> Matt

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