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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Why can't we just "reset" Usenet?
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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:

D> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
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> [...]
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>> Could you recommend a small, simple news server? I looked at leafnode
>> and it works. I don't need peering functionality. Are there any others
>> that are similar to leafnode?
>
> You already know noffle, right?  It's very easy to use.  It's able to
> download articles from the USENET and you have local groups too.  It
> stores articles in a GDBM, not on the file system.

At one time I looked at 

  https://github.com/larsmagne/reticule

but I had the impression it was not finished back then.  It was somehow
incomplete and I could not make sense of it.  I would happily look at it
again.  A system that's already ready to be a gmane-like system seems
like awesome, though I feel the installation of such a thing is not easy
to do.