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   From: Chris Game    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Slrn   
   Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:42:30 -0000   
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   On 2007-02-21, Mateus Denigris  wrote:   
   >   
   > Your ISP controls your ISP's news server. With Leafnode, you are    
   > essentially creating your own ISP Newserver. Leafnode will cache    
   > articles and newsgroups from any source(s) you specify, and your    
   > news reader then accesses Leafnode as an NNTP server. As far as    
   > your reader knows, it *is* your ISP's newserver. Leafnode can be    
   > configured as a cron job that retrieves messages and headers from    
   > servers at a given time that is convienient for you, without your    
   > having to do a thing, and it will do so from as many or as few    
   > servers as you want, and as many or as few messages as you want.    
   > It is most decidedly _much_ faster than directly accessing the ISP    
   > NNTP server remotely. Posting is also much more efficient as it is    
   > done as configured, and messages may be qued as desired.   
      
   Yes, well thanks for the lesson, but you didn't explain how the    
   local server adds functionality to the system, particularly in the    
   caching of headers etc. *which would allow* previously read posts    
   to be displayed without having to reload them from the NNTP server.   
   Reading them from another server doesn't count, I can do that from    
   the ISP's server (if there isn't much traffic it's very fast).   
   >   
   > It's alot of fun being your own ISP. Next class we will discuss    
   > the joys of SMTP ;-)   
      
   Look forward to it!   
      
   --    
   Chris Game   
      
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