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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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To: plm@xs4all.nl, ponds!FreeBSD.org!freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: Best way to fetch/post via NNTP?
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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. -