newsreading with debian lenny

[Alex Snow]

That makes sense...I haven't been on usenet for some years, but back 
when I was my isp had an account with supernews so everything worked 
pretty well just connecting directly.  When they dropped supernews and 
installed their own servers (running Tornado I think it was called, 
some piece of crap nntp server that barely implemented the protocol 
correctly) and I drifted away from usenet although I also went off to 
school around that time so that might have caused it too.
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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