Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:25:15 -0800 From: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG> To: rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, shovey@buffnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A method of inject news from an ISP? Message-ID: <199703111825.KAA08277@meerkat.mole.org>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Tue Mar 11 06:48:40 1997 > 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? > > > How about get a newsfeed instead of looking for ways to leach. 1) This is an inappropriate comment for a public list. 2) Dave runs UUCP and has done so for a long time, but don't get him started about being called "Dave" rather than "Thomas". 3) Once, long ago, newsfeeds were free. Dave is of that era, so are others here (I gave away dozens of free feeds, so did _many_ others). 4) Find out the difference between "leach", the process, and "leech", the animal, and, finally, 5) The question was quite reasonable, and if I were still running a UUCP site, I'd offer him a long-distance feed. > > 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 - > > > > > > -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 Better is the enemy of Good
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