ca566 at cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Holloway) writes:
>Could someone offer me some clues (or even solid information) about where
>and how to get a good newsgroup feed.
GenBank will be happy to provide a bionet-only NNTP feed to any site that
requests it (we'll provide a full feed if you can make a good case for it).
This will continue even after the end of the GenBank contract. We will also
provide a UUCP feed, if the site is willing to pay the phone costs (as in,
your site calls us).
>Right now my campus, SUNY at Stony>Brook, gets newsgroup information that curiously has large gaps and
>deletions. A newsgroup, such as the bionet groups, might be listed but no
>articles will ever appear. Read news software is apparently set up here by
>whatever interested undergraduate happens to come through the door and
>there hasn't been any sitings of the creatures lately. Right now I'm
>telneting to Cleveland Freenet but the cost of the I/O charges quickly
>drains my account to nothing. So I, some other
>molbio grad student types and some interested faculty (not many of the
>latter) are interested in taking matters into our own hands. Lacking that,
>we'd appreciate any information regarding someone else's news feed that we
>could grap via telnet. Any clues as to what to look for and where to look
>will be greatly appreciated.
We can provide limited help in setting up feeds and configuring software
at your site. Please feel free to contact me directly for more details.
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