Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 13:24:14 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: plm@xs4all.nl, ponds!FreeBSD.org!freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Best way to fetch/post via NNTP? Message-ID: <199701261824.NAA17753@lakes.water.net>
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> > In ports/news there are some NNTP transfer programs, such as slurp or > suck. > > I use cnews locally and want to fetch the newsgroups using one of > these programs from my news server. Which of these programs is > recommended? > > -- > Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality > plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have > I use slurp... However, I've found that since the news moving through is not compressed; it can take much longer to move the equivalent amount of news when compared to compressed UUCP batches. An interesting alternative would be UUCP over TCP/IP; it might be a more productive use of bandwidth... - Dave R. -
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