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From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: best news server for a limited feed
Date: 31 Jan 1996 04:54:12 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services
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In article <4eiocg$lsm@news.cic.net>, Paul Southworth <pauls@cic.net> wrote:
>Finding a method for extracting news from the server without using the
>"newnews" NNRP command would be advisable, IMO.  I think "suck" avoids
>it, but "slurp" does not.

"Suck" does avoid "newnews".  In fact, that is the entire motivation behind
it being written: slurp sucked, so suck was written.

--Tim Smith