Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:05:56 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USENET? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903091404290.2030@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20090309114438.GA1362@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <20090308231643.GA35171@thought.org> <20090308195357.W95994@tripel.monochrome.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903091138110.1817@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090309114438.GA1362@phenom.cordula.ws>
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>> at least in Poland there are free. and for my clients i have nntpcache'd >> news from Gda?sk University. > > Actually, in most parts of the world, news are still freely available > with many ISPs (you may have to ask them explicitly), except for > alt.binaries.* which are quite bandwidth intensive. i'm connected to university network (commercially, not as a student ;), i have all their service included in price. alt.binaries.* too, don't know if all of them as i don't use it. > > Your typical small ISP would rather save the bandwidth it takes to > transfer all articles, esp. if only a fraction of them are accessed nntpcache is exactly for this. it's like squid, just for nntp it's worth even with 1 nntp user, and it takes 5 minutes to configure.
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