From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 11:47:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04077 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:47:13 -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 LAA04064 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:47:10 -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 OAA20385 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:38:27 -0500 Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa07571; 11 Mar 97 14:48 EST Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:47:26 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: Thomas David Rivers cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A method of inject news from an ISP? In-Reply-To: <199703111620.LAA23779@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 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.