Greg Fenton <greg_fenton@yahoo.com> wrote:

>We have a number of internal newsgroups and I've been asked if SWISH-E
>could be used to search them.
>
>I know all of the necessary pieces exist in one form or other
>(command-line nntp client and/or Perl NNTP:: modules, web interfaces
>for newsgroups, etc...) but I wonder if anyone has experience trying to
>pull all of this together?
>
>I'm looking to implement my solution on GNU/Linux and am even willing
>to run my own NNTP server if necessary.  Anyone have suggestions,
>advice, pointers, hints, HOWTOs, etc... ?

I've done exactly that - on Solaris.  Contact me offline for info.
There are a lot of pieces and it's a bit of work, but it's definitely
worthwhile.

Steve Bacher
Draper Laboratory
Cambridge, MA, USA
seb@draper.com