From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jul 13 22:50:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA01484 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.tbe.net (qmailr@lightning.tbe.net [208.208.122.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA01479 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23547 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Jul 1997 05:44:58 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 01:44:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Jan A Knepper cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off-line News access via UUCP. In-Reply-To: <33C98959.569566B0@jak.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > here an other dombo question: > > Could I setup a news system via offline UUCP? > I would like FreeBSD to download the messages from certain news groups > and have them locally ready. Then local user could look at them and give > there response. If there is any response these could be send to the news > group so they will be visible for the rest of the world. > > Is there such a feature available? Where would I look? This may or may not work: We are looking into an application called DNews which allows the retreival of newsgroups on demand. When a user requests a newsgroup, it checks to see if it has it stored locally from the last time it was requested, gets the newsgroup if not, and updates the newsgroups if it already has most of it. If you don't have a huge base of users reading news like us, where it is cost-ineffective for us to have a full newsfeed, it is a good inbetween. Our line is faster than a modem, so the newsgroups will come down faster than the user's modem can download it, so they see no apparent slowdown. It cuts down on the bandwith of a full newsfeed, and uses a fraction of the hard drive space as it only gets the groups that are requested, plus you can specify how large a slice of drive it uses so it doesn;t overflow to the rest of the disk and crowd out other important functions. -Gary Margiotta TBE Internet Services http://www.tbe.net