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diff --git a/news/suck/pkg-descr b/news/suck/pkg-descr index c36557a3968f..53ddcdcc9ce5 100644 --- a/news/suck/pkg-descr +++ b/news/suck/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ suck feeds news to local INN or CNEWS server without the remote NNTP feeding. This is useful, if you get news from NNTP server with dialup connection. ---- -Noritaka Ishizumi graphite@taurus.bekkoame.or.jp +Suck is a program used to grab news from a remote NNTP news server and +bring it to your local machine, without the remote server doing +anything special. If you have read permission on the server, you can +use suck. Suck does NOT use the NEWNEWS command, hated by many +administrators. + +WWW: http://www.sucknews.org/ |