From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 23 19:06:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00374 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from info.tsu.tomsk.su (TSU-Relarn.Relarn.ru [194.226.29.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00350 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by info.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.2) with UUCP id EAA14365 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 04:36:54 +0800 (TSD) Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id QAA15722 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:44:39 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199707230844.QAA15722@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: Using slurp To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:44:38 +0800 (TSD) In-Reply-To: from "Nick Liu" at "Jul 20, 97 10:30:17 pm" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nick Liu wrote: > > I tried to use slurp to fetch new articles from my ISP. I think it is a better idea to use suck instead of slurp. I switched after I noticed the following bug: when there are a lot of crossposts, slurp damages the article. I think also that suck does not load your ISP as much as slurp does because suck does not use "newnews". Please correct me if I am wrong. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm