[Mailman-Users] NNTP server for "local" newsgroups ?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

John Fitzsimons writes:

 > In another thread we were talking about Mailman to web forum 
 > options. As Mailman can manage NNTP I wondered whether anyone
 > here had come across an NNTP server for "local" (not usenet)
 > newsgroups ?

Just use any old NNTP server and block access from the outside at the
firewall.

 > One that doesn't require root access and could be put on a "hosted"
 > Linux site. I have doubts that such a thing exists but if it does then
 > I thought someone here may have come across it.   :-)

Most such software has a configuration option to specify the port,
since that's a common way to test modified software.