Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:01:58 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Ron Hensley" <ronh@intercom.net>, "Dale Chulhan" <dchulhan@uwi.tt>, "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: [OT] NewsFeeds Message-ID: <003601c178d6$07317220$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <001501c178d0$c871b3b0$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ron Hensley >Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:23 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Dale Chulhan; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: Re: [OT] NewsFeeds > > >-----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. You didn't look that hard then. :-) Cable and Wireless, one of the bigger backbones, offers them, see: http://infopage.cary.cw.net/Other_Services/News/pull.html >at least when id been looking, I had a very hard time finding any commercial >providers who offered them. > If they don't offer a PULL feed then ask if they have a newsserver that you can use a regular Windows news client with, like Outlook Express. That will work fine with Leafnode. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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