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   From: Hadron    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Slrn   
   Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:41:58 +0100   
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   Chris Game  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Imagine your net link went down for example?   
      
   A lot of news servers hold 1000s of articles. Its much faster to fetch   
   related articles if they are stored locally. Its also more efficient IMO   
   as I just "trickle" update my local storage using leafnode every hour or   
   so. If you are using an online newsreader you are downloading the lot   
   every time you connect.   
      
      
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