news server question

Floyd L. Davidson writes:
> However, a simple DSL isn't enough bandwidth for a full news feed, nor
> are you likely to have enough disk space for one.

No one has a full feed. Not even God (that's an historical reference).

> That means you necessarily have a partial feed.

Of course.

> You have to jump through whatever hoops are necessary from your news feed
> (and that might vary from almost nothing to considerable) to get access
> to the new newsgroup, and then you have to download a batch of files to
> read anything.

A trivial matter of running a script.

As I observed, a local server is most beneficial when using intermittent
dialup. I don't intend to quit, though. One of its advantages is
transparent support for multiple newsreaders. Another ls local groups.

I've never used leafnode, but if packaged properly it should be trivial to
install and administer and should be able to add groups on user request.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA