Can SBNews be used with a Proxy Server or Gateway ?
Proxy Servers are the software currently being released to allow multiple computers to use a single phone line. They are becoming quite common and many different ones are presently available. After being asked the above question by many different users, I decided to setup a Proxy Server myself. I chose Midpoint Gateway (www.midcore.com). I’ll describe how to get SBNews to work with Midpoint Gateway, with the assumption that other Proxy Servers work in a similar manner. A Proxy Server handles requests by having you direct your requests to the Proxy Server itself and then the Proxy Server forwards the request to the actual Internet service. Therefore, all applications that will use the Internet must be made aware of the Proxy Server. Midpoint Gateway handles NNTP (news) by having you set your news server to the local Midpoint Gateway machine (midpoint). Then on the Gateway machine itself you specify the real news server. For example, on my configuration, the gateway machine is called “mi
