Attila T Hun <attila@primenet.com> writes:
tim:
two points you make:
1. the propogation is slow...
2. some sites do not carry alt. groups
are enough to kill an active discussion list. of course, it does slow down excessive volume.
Is there any offline newsreading software for linux? (Something to grab feeds from an NNTP server of selected newsgroups to put in /usr/spool/news/, and something to queue posts for posting via NNTP when on line) (My difficulty with USENET groups is that we have pay per second phone bills over here, and online USENET reading is inefficient, that plus propogation delays). Adam -- print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`