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   From: Chris Game    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Slrn   
   Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:24:58 -0000   
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   On 2007-02-20, Hadron  wrote:   
      
   >> I mean "How does that help". Does having slrnpull or leafnode add    
   >> anything to the functionality I get from the news server at my ISP? I    
   >   
   > You asked how it does that on local servers. leafnode acts as an an nntp   
   > server. It in itself has cached articles. Fast, efficient, offline news   
   reading.   
   >   
   How is that different to my ISP's news server? That's fast enough,    
   surely? 'local' by itself, seems to have nothing to do with it.   
      
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