Hello mark,

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:30:44 -0500, mark lewis -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 NB>> Synchronet does indeed have it's own NNTP server.

 ml> in any case, if SBBS has its own news server and it automatically
 ml> renumbers, then it has some method to keep the numbers straight... you
 ml> can't easily do that with a 3rd party server that doesn't keep up with
 ml> them... JAMNNTPd is such a 3rd party news server and i'm not aware of
 ml> any other being available to serve FTN messages...

Even if your message bases were set to renumber, I doubt any client would ever
know that.

 ml> [time passes]

 ml> aww, crap... i found the settings for the SBBS news server in the
 ml> services.ini :rolleyes:

There ya go. 

 ml> it just seems like it would be in sbbs.ini along with [BBS], [Mail],
 ml> [FTP] and [Web] :?

It would seem so, but it could have been considered a lesser important service,
 which seems to be what services.ini contains.

Anyhow, sorry to go off topic. Back to your originally scheduled NNTP server.


Regards,
Nick

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