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In article <56qets$m0f@news.iceonline.com>, Borg writes:

> Why cnews? ICEonline had cnews and it sucked: was slow,
> missed articles once in a while, didn't recognize control
> messages (such as when you want to cancel your articles)
> and so on. Since they upgraded ro INN, news are much smoother.

The book I have recommends staying away from INN as it's new and buggier. 
So far its recommendations haven't got me into trouble...

> Even if you want to carry only 100 groups, it may be enough
> to saturate your 28.800 connection. I'd recommend you try
> "suck", that's a good program to retreive news to your disk
> from your ISP. 

100! Nah, just a dozen or so. The same groups I currently download to my 
Mac so I know it won't saturate my 14.4 connection.

> Another option is to use IP masquerading (sp?),
> sLIRP, then you can dial up your ISP from Linux, go to
> your Mac or Wintel box and access news/www/ftp etc. 
> directly at your ISP using your Linux box as a gateway
> between your ISP and your Macintosh. 

This is something else I want to set up. But news definately has to be 
off-line.

> Lots of Usenet-related stuff is at:
> 
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/system/News/

Thanks.

> There's also a Vancouver Linux Users mailing list
> at linux@ee.ubc.ca where you can get help as well.

Thanks.
--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea --
massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a
source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect
it."--spaf@cs.purdue.edu (1992)
        gordonm@portal.ca