Newsx is a program to pull in newsgroups to your own spool and read the articles locally. You need inn to use it, but I find it convenient. on Tuesday 12/23/2008 Chuck Hallenbeck(chuckh at ftml.net) wrote > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (14% of Full) > > My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net > -------- > The young have aspirations that never come to pass, > The old have reminiscences of what never happened. > -- H. H. Monroe > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
