Supporting https in actsync (ftp.isc.org)

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Kevin,

> I do use actsync and am ok with the new proposal but a little 
> disappointed by people dropping FTP unnecessarily.

Thanks for your message.

FWIW, I implemented the proposal last month.  It will be shipped with 
the next 2.7.3 release and, if need be, can be used with previous 
versions (actsyncd, simpleftp and innshellvars then need a manual 
update).  Information about that manual update is here:
     https://github.com/InterNetNews/inn/issues/312

Also, the good news is that the Free University of Berlin still has an 
FTP server, and they now get the newsgroups information from the same 
source as ftp.isc.org takes theirs (that is to say control-archive 
maintained by Russ).  So, if and when ftp.isc.org closes as an FTP 
server, just changing actsync.cfg to:

    host=ftp.fu-berlin.de
    ftppath=/doc/usenet/config/active.gz

will be enough: actsyncd will go on synchronizing the data using the FTP 
protocol.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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