Sachin Dole rearranged electrons thusly:
> Suresh and others, I am going to run inn for my organisation and we have a
> pipe from bharati BT. All resource that I have is a linux server behind a
> firewall and good amount of bandwidth. I have not even tied up with any news
Bharti BT doesn't have a newsfeed of its' own - but they are directly
downstream of VSNL, which has a direct feed from cw.net
I don't know where the UUNet comes in (or does planetasia host its servers with
uunet somewhere?) Your planetasia.com seems to be downstream of some outfit
called XMedia Corp (xm.com)
You can contact those people for a feed, or you can contact vsnl for a feed.
If you want a separate newsfeed without any other service from some provider,
it will be _extremely_ expensive.
> provider (or upstream as i just learnt). I will be subscribing to newsgroups
> for java, C++ etc. Is it possible to hook up with paid news providers like
> uunet or free ones like news://newsgroups.weblogic.com for what I want to
> achieve?
There are lots of free news providers around there - and supernews offers a
great paid service. You could ask supernews for a single account and share it
through your lan using a local copy of INN. If not supernews, go for
http://www.newsfeeds.com
If you want access to an nntp server only for yourself, then see
http://news.cis.dfn.de - which is pretty good. I also suggest using something
like Forte Free Agent (or better still, slrn for 'doze) instead of outlook /
netscape newsreaders. Safer and more powerful.
The free providers have a limited range of newsgroups - and often don't
refresh too fast, so you'll get several days old posts.
+suresh
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