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. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) -- Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds
