Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:19:18 -0500 (EST) From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A method of inject news from an ISP? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970311091831.12298M-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199703110109.UAA22276@lakes.water.net>
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How about get a newsfeed instead of looking for ways to leach. On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > Since there has been considerable discussion of FreeBSD and news > lately, I thought I would ask my question of the forum to see > if I can get an answer. > > I used to use the 'slurp' package (with a 'u' not an 'i') to do > NEWNEWS commands on my ISPs newserver and inject the news into > my local system... > > However, my ISP decided NEWNEWS was consuming too many server cycles, > and decided to disallow it. > > Does someone have suggestions for an alternative method which will > fetch new news articles (based on a timestamp and a list of newsgroups) > and inject them into a local news server? > > - Thanks - > - Dave Rivers - > >
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