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Originally Posted by invincible
I am interested in getting into newsgroups. Before moving to a pay server i thought i would try using the ntl one first.
I have a few questions
I believe they have 7 days retention, is this true? Is there a limit to how much you can download? Do they have problems with users downloading large amounts? Do they monitor the server, or keep logs? Would you recommend i use it (mainly to practice with and understand newsgroups further)?
Thank You
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heres an easy answer for you:
you might try installing Hamster , a local lan news server and then dont need to worry about retention, just poll once or twice a day.
hamster will poll any servers you set, and you then point any of your news readers to the local hamster server copy.
http://www.elbiah.de/hamster/doc/index.htm
http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/hamster2