From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 5: 2:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D6237B41F for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:02:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fATD1wR55110; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Ron Hensley" , "Dale Chulhan" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: [OT] NewsFeeds Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:01:58 -0800 Message-ID: <003601c178d6$07317220$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <001501c178d0$c871b3b0$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ron Hensley >Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:23 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Dale Chulhan; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: Re: [OT] NewsFeeds > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >> As you say, a full "push" newsfeed is expensive both in terms of bandwidth >> and in terms of costs. >> >> But, you can set up a "sucking" feed quite cheaply using a dynamic NNTP >> server like leafnode, or DNEWS or something like that. And there's no >> per-user cost as long as your upstream ISP runs a newsserver that allows >> sucking feeds. Leafnode for example appears identically as a newsreader >> client to the newsfeed, and the number of users that access it is >invisible >> to the upstream feed. > >I agree, however when I had to find such a beast I couldnt find anyone who >would provide one. You didn't look that hard then. :-) Cable and Wireless, one of the bigger backbones, offers them, see: http://infopage.cary.cw.net/Other_Services/News/pull.html >at least when id been looking, I had a very hard time finding any commercial >providers who offered them. > If they don't offer a PULL feed then ask if they have a newsserver that you can use a regular Windows news client with, like Outlook Express. That will work fine with Leafnode. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message