Hi Eric, Well I'll try to explain things a bit. All corrections are welcome. NNTPCache is a NNTP proxy server. That is, your newsreader program (like WinVN, Netscape News, Forte, Microsoft Internet News etc.) connects to it just as it would to ordinary NNTP server (like Unix system running INN suite). However, it NNTPCache system does not store the entire newsfeed as normal Usenet node does. Instead, when client newsreader asks for a certain article, it goes and gets it from the primary NNTP server. If it then asks for another article, it will go again and get that article. However, the retrieved articles (and some supporting info) are cached. Thus, if another client asks for the same article, NNTPCache need not go to primary server. It just grabs the cached copy and returns it. So, it saves the bandwidth if some information is accessed by several users. It also saves the bandwidth (and disk space on server) by retrieving only those articles that are really needed. The bottom line is you need the primary server which would be willing to give you NNTP access. Hope this helps Genie > From: Eric Theriault <syn@fxbbs.com> > FXBBS is an ISP, so what I mean is providing them with Newsgroups without > eating up the bandwidth. Looking forward to any assistance. --- ######################################################### Eugene V. Radchenko Research associate, Computer Chemistry E-mail: genie@qsar.chem.msu.su http://org.chem.msu.su/~genie =================================================== Once installed, CD-ROM can be connected to Internet via your computer's modem ---- TV Commercial, Intel Corp. Russia
