On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:19:16PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Jay R. Ashworth:
Opinion pieces in Wired and AG's grandstanding by throwing babies out with bathwater notwithstanding, a query from a cow-orker caused me to wonder: is there still anyplace to get a Usenet feed from these days that isn't {Giga,Super,etc}News? I want to pull maybe 30 or 40 tech groups into my own server for the 5 or 6 people in my IT group.
You should be able to get the Big 8 (without any binary junk) fairly easily. Finding someone who manages your subscriptions using GUP (or even manually *gasp*) could be more difficult, though, so receiving a subset is likely not an option.
Some offlist chatter suggests it might not be that difficult; I'm investigating more deeply and will report what I can. :-) How much *is* Big8 a day these days, though, a gig? I have a 10MBs hose... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Josef Stalin)