newsreading with debian lenny

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

I am curious to know what you think about an application called newsx.
The URL's for help and documentation seem to be unavailable, and I'm
not sure it is still being supported. What role could it play in
working with newsgroups?

Thanks,
Chuck


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:56:01AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Alex Snow wrote:
>> If he's running leafnode he'd want to point his newsreader to  
>> localhost.
>> I'm not sure why he'd bother use leafnode, I always just used rtin and  
>> set it to use my ISP's newsserver.
>>   
>
> Because maybe his ISP news server is slow and crappy like most are.   
> Unless you pay for something like Supernews, it makes more sense to  
> locally archive groups that you want to read.  I have extensive archives  
> of some newsgroups that would be impossible with any ISP news server  
> that I've used.  Even with a good news server, it seems common to have  
> dropped articles.  I don't mean spam, I mean good articles that get  
> dropped for no reason.  It's very hard to follow a discussion with 1/3  
> of the conversation missing.  No, I'm not pushing for Supernews,  
> actually there are better pay news services out there.  I only mention  
> them because they're cheap and offer good text archives.  I think it's  
> $5 or $6 per month.  Granted that isn't free, but it's better than the  
> local ISP news server.
>
> In cases of readers other than tin, especially with very old readers  
> like slrn, they expect you to run a local news server, thus leafnode is  
> a good option.  Usenet, like other aspects of the Internet, goes back a  
> very long time, long before broadband and the days when anyone could  
> pull their own small news feed.
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