Of all the NntpServers out there you'd think that there would be a good one in an AgileLanguage. Where is it? Am I just being dumb?
See also: IscInn, newsreaders.com
Full Servers
- CNews
The original OpenSource news server. You probably don't want to use this anymore.
- Diablo
The main OpenSource competitor to the traditional INN.
- DNews
Commercial alternative to INN. Looks very slick but lack of an OpenSource license meant it wasn't chosen.
- INN
By the ISC (who also brought you IscBind) it's the default NntpServer.
- Newsd
- Simple server which only hosts local news groups. Doesn't support Usenet feeds or authentication (but looks very promising!).
Caching / Proxy Servers
- Leafnode
- Lightweight caching news server. It's homepage notes a downside as "scales very badly" and solves most problems by "deleting the offending message". However the new 2.0 version which is currently in alpha will host local news groups as well as cache and is looking much more promising.
- NewsCache
- A lightweight caching news server, similar to Leafnode or NNTPCache. Can talk to multiple upstream news servers.
- NNTPCache
Another caching news server I've used in the past at EarthLight. Quite good but doesn't support locally hosted groups.
- NNTPSwitch
- Basically the same thing as NNTPCache but without the caching and claims to be much faster. The value over a simple TCP proxy is that like NNTPCache it can route client queries to different backend servers based on group name (eg. internal.announce goes to a local server but comp.foo goes to the world).
- s-news
- S-news is a simple news server for hosts with one or two users. It is intended to supply spool and offline news reading for a configured selection of newsgroups. S-news does the minimum required to maintain a conventional news spool and makes use of suck for news transport.
- sn
- sn is a small news system for small sites serving perhaps a few dozen newsgroups, and with a slow connection to the internet. It is similar to Leafnode. The target user is a home or SOHO with a single modem connection to the Internet, maybe running IP masq or similar, and serving a few workstations.
Transit Only Servers
- Typhoon/Breeze/Cyclone
We used to use Typhoon at InternetAlaska and I was quite pleased with it, however their domain no longer seems to point to them and I can't find any links to software so they musta gone the way of the dinosaurs.
- NNTPRelay
- Didn't have much documentation, didn't investigate too deeply.
Other
- Colobus
Serves up ezmlm archives as NNTP groups. Where's the one for MailMan, hello?
- FUDforum
- A web discussion board / forum which can gate forums to mailing lists and news groups. Seems quite powerful and advanced but haven't used it very much.
- Papercut
- Papercut is a news server written in Python. Its main objective is to integrate existing web based message board software (Phorum is one of the supported ones) with an Usenet front-end. However, its extensibility enables developers to write their own containers for the storage of the Usenet articles (messages).
- Reticule
- Doesn't appear ready for the world yet, but is just what I want, an read/post only NNTP server (no need for transit features). It's what will one day power gmane.org.