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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!neoucom.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!zippy.intcom.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs 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 Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4emslk$ece@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4edrkm$q0b@news.be.innet.net> <4eh1lg$e0@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> <4eiocg$lsm@news.cic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com 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