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In article <4e3jtm$pjc@morgoth.sfu.ca>,
Peter Van Epp <vanepp@news.sfu.ca> wrote:
>michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) writes:
>
>>If I were assigned to Lower Slobovia for a year, I would *WANT* to be 
>>able to read and post to bc.* and can.* newsgroups.
>
>	A local ISP friendly answer to this is an account on one of the local
>ISPs where you telnet in and read the bc.* groups (somewhat of an additional
>expense, but do able ...)

And with a latency of a few seconds per character? An NNTP feed for a 
couple of local groups would be a bit more responsive, and you could 
pull news off the server for reading later (not a big issue for a small
local newsgroup). But ISPs generally don't enable NNTP feeds for individual users/hosts.


"local" newsgroups aren't that local anymore. I could be down the street
from a guy, but there could be a dozen news servers between us; servers
physically located hundreds of miles away.  

anyway, are ISPs that concerned? They just add disk space and pick up
any and every newsgroup that passes by. BC Tel practically brags about
how many groups they're picking up from MCI.


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