Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:22:53 -0500 From: "Ron Hensley" <ronh@intercom.net> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Dale Chulhan" <dchulhan@uwi.tt>, "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [OT] NewsFeeds Message-ID: <001501c178d0$c871b3b0$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com> References: <000b01c178cd$c6aaddc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > As you say, a full "push" newsfeed is expensive both in terms of bandwidth > and in terms of costs. > > But, you can set up a "sucking" feed quite cheaply using a dynamic NNTP > server like leafnode, or DNEWS or something like that. And there's no > per-user cost as long as your upstream ISP runs a newsserver that allows > sucking feeds. Leafnode for example appears identically as a newsreader > client to the newsfeed, and the number of users that access it is invisible > to the upstream feed. I agree, however when I had to find such a beast I couldnt find anyone who would provide one. UUNet for instance, one of the biggest news services out there, only offers full feeds, no suck feeds. If you know someone who already gets a full feed and will let you pull a suck feed from them, awesome, however at least when id been looking, I had a very hard time finding any commercial providers who offered them. Point well taken however! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBPAYom1Fb04N5DzUjEQIZWgCg41MgQ4RGgvxxuZMK+zxscYEB96wAnj1B vEkaK3mY9zY5uJ4iq95pmaIV =UpBZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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