From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 06:18:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA05550 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 06:18:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA05541 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 06:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA15193 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:10:17 -0500 Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa10255; 11 Mar 97 9:20 EST Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:19:18 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: Thomas David Rivers cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A method of inject news from an ISP? In-Reply-To: <199703110109.UAA22276@lakes.water.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 - > >