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The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
>
> > > X-Sender: brian@hyperreal.org
> > > Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 13:44:02 -0800
> > > From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>
> > > Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
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> > > At 07:24 PM 1/2/99 -0800, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> > > >  news seems to have even more flamage than the mailing lists.
> > > >  with mail i can control spam, with news everyone would have to
> > > >  control spam.
> > >
> > > Unless you run a localized newsserver.  news://news.freebsd.org/ for example.
> >
> >   all news servers would hvae to send all news to
> >   news://news.freebsd.org/ and only news://news.freebsd.org/ would be
> >   allowed to send news to any other site......there's that bottleneck
> >   again....now it'll be larger quantities of news (rather than mail)
> >   less frequently.
> >
> >   perhaps i have misunderstood.
>
> I think he was suggesting setting up a local news server that everyone can
> connect to to read a "freebsd.*" set of newsgroups...
>
> Marc G. Fournier
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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I personally would like this so I could just ignore people flaming me.  But really,
I have to check my email every 2 hours or it fills up.  I would like a news server.


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