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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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