news.nntpcache.org (was Postinstallation problems...)

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Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> writes:
>> Up to now I could never reach the news server "news.nntpcache.org"
>> mentioned in the samples configuration files. Is this server gone?
> Yes, we took it down as it was a silly catch-22. Forcing people to use
> nntpcache to solve problems about how to use nntpcache wasn't very
> productive :)

Why is it a catch-22?  Netscape, and a number of other news readers can
connect to newsgroups on arbitrary servers, so there is no need at all
to be using nntpcache in order for news.nntpcache.org to be useful or
useable.

Brian.


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