Re: NNTPCACHE

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> Would NNTPCACHE be a reasonable thing to run on a local host on the
> local side of a slow (14.4K) network connection?

Definately.

> I recently installed an HTTP proxy server, which means that all Web access is both:
> a) Somewhat archived locally, and
> b) Faster, when it gets cache hits, regardless of which browser I may use.
> 
> I'm speculating that NNTPCACHE would do the same thing for me.

This is exactly what nntpcache does, only because nntp is a lot more complex
than http the caching system is also more complex.

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 torment us for own good  will torment us  without end,  for they do so with 
 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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