On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:39:43AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > news/pan seems to work OK, if you want a GUI. But be aware that nowadays, > > you'll probably have to pay a monthly fee for usenet. ISPs don't seem to > > routinely offer it as part of the deal anymore like they > > used to. > > at least in Poland there are free. and for my clients i have nntpcache'd > news from Gda?sk University.
Actually, in most parts of the world, news are still freely available with many ISPs (you may have to ask them explicitly), except for alt.binaries.* which are quite bandwidth intensive. Your typical small ISP would rather save the bandwidth it takes to transfer all articles, esp. if only a fraction of them are accessed by their customers. It simply doesn't make sense for them to host binaries, unlike dedicated news providers which have enough customers to justify the expenses. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
