Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:47:26 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <root@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.3.95.970311144601.16181c-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199703111620.LAA23779@lakes.water.net>
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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Steve Shovey writes: > > > > How about get a newsfeed instead of looking for ways to leach. > > > > I have one, thank you; but it comes through a 19200 UUCP conncetion, > and can get woefully behind. > > The model of downloading frequently read news groups from an ISP > and injecting them into a local server (as a cache) for later reading > seems perfectly reasonable to me... The intent is not to "leach"; > but rather to efficiently use my resources (both hardware and wetware.) > > - Dave R. - Thats very self centered of you. One is supposed to take into consideration the impact of whatever they intend to do might have on the other party or parties. You obviously were told to cool it because you had a negative impact.
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