From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 17 10:21:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA05151 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 10:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05140 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 10:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0urp3Z-0008vKC; Sat, 17 Aug 96 10:21 PDT Message-Id: From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Re: News provider feeback To: andrew@pubnix.net Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 10:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andrew Webster" at Aug 16, 96 11:31:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Does anyone what any expieriences (good or bad) with the Pagesat system? > Does it work with FreeBSD? I used it a couple years ago, but then a little tree became a big tree faster than expected in just the wrong place. Since I got a T1 about then, I switched to a net feed. The software comes in source, and is pretty basic. Basically, articles stream in ascii, with standard "#!rnews bytecount" lines in between them. Every now and then, a batch of email appears in between the news articles (in clear text --- *don't* get your email service from them!). The software I had didn't parse email and it all showed up in the log as bad articles. I had to hack it to recognize the email separator and skip it. I'm considering going back: they're changing systems and satellites, and the new satellite is in a location I can use. The bad news is that my hardware is now so much scrap, as I missed the upgrade window, so I'll have to shell out for all new, including the antennae. The news did seem to lag a little (a couple of days), but then so does my net feed, and pagesat says they've fixed that... -- Alan Batie ______ We're Starfleet officers: batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Weird is part of the job. +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Captain Janeway DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.