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From: jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com (Jonathan Kamens)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX remote NNTP newsreader suggestions needed
Date: 20 Jun 1996 14:06:45 GMT
Organization: jik's Linux box
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Sender: jik@jik.israel.net (Jonathan Kamens)
Message-ID: <4qblua$hpp@jik.israel.net>
References: <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: jik.israel.net
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In article <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com>, conrads@no.such.domain (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
|> What I'd like is a way to read news from my ISP via NNTP over a 28.8K 
|> dialup connection *without* having to download the entire list of groups
|> every time I start up my newsreader.

Both knews and xrn can do this.  I don't know about knews, but since I
maintain XRN, I can tell you where to get it :-).  The current
production release is available from
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/xrn.tgz>.  The current beta release
is available from <URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/beta.tgz>.

I don't distribute a binary XRN release for FreeBSD, only for Linux, so
I guess you'll just have to compile it.  It really isn't hard to
compile, though.