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From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: best news server for a limited feed
Date: 28 Jan 1996 23:42:40 GMT
Organization: Paradise Green Technical Services
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Joakim B. Hernberg (jbh@dd.finlink.lu) wrote:
: What is the best news server package for running a limited news feed
: on my FreeBSD 2.1.0-Release host. I only want to pull in the say 10
: - 20 groups which I am interested in at the moment, in order to speed
: up my news reading.
: jbh@dd.finlink.lu
: Joakim Hernberg
I use the INN software, which is available as a package/port, together
with a program called "slurp" which is a fast offline news gatherer.
Archie will probably find slurp, or email me if you can't locate it but
want to.
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