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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with INN and newsfeed
Date: 15 Oct 1995 17:50:58 +0100
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Mark Seiffert <seiffert@neosoft.com> wrote:

>I have been able to pull news from their system, using nntpget (i
>think), and would like to know if there is a way to get inn to get the
>news from them without an additional charge.  My current newsfeed
>entry for them is;

Only if they're co-operating.  Perhaps you could get the news via UUCP
(even over TCP).

The problem is that the news server of your ISP would have to decide
for each _incoming_ article whether it's to feed to your site or not.
This is done by writing down the location and/or message ID by their
news server whenever a new article is arriving.  Later, when you're
connecting, their server would use this list to dump the new articles
over to your site.

I think you could ask their server for a list of new articles and then
retrieve them via NNTP (ain't that basically what nntpget is doing?),
but INN is not intented to do this.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)