Date: 14 Feb 2001 03:36:45 +0100 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@poboxes.com> To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why there is no news.freebsd.org ? Message-ID: <n1bquh1e.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Igor Robul's message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:45:15 %2B0300" References: <200102130241.f1D2fMp68169@earth.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.1010213132208.1985K-100000@xkis.kis.ru> <20010213134515.A10122@linux.rainbow>
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Igor Robul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org> writes: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:23:35PM +0300, Dmitry Valdov wrote: > > No, no! Why not to have freebsd's news server which isn't connected to = usenet?=20 > > Just to be able to use NNTP protocol for reading maillists. >=20 > Same reason. If it will be _public_ it'll have all USENET problems. If which problems are you talking about ? do you think there is SPAM to private news servers ? -announce, -security-notification et co. have to be moderated, which is currently the case. > it'll require auth, then what is advatage opposed to mailing list?=20 bandwitch. think to people which are using modems. not a problem for me, I'm over cable. but I've subscribed to 17 freebsd mailing lists, which represent around 600+ messages a day and 2.5 MB a day ! do you think I read all messages ? of course, not, maybe 100 at most. > =BA=D0=DA =E2=D0=DC =D2 =BD=D8=D6=DD=D5=DC =DF=DE=D3=DE=D4=D0? ???, humm! of course :)) Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@poboxes.com UNIX is user-friendly; it's just partic= ular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends wi= th. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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