>i'd be happy. the only use i have for a unix machine is as a place to
>read news.

I've been using Charles's rio and his hidden news server ☺ for 
Plan 9. However, very few users would have been touching
the news system these days in our Univ.  As a matter of result, 
our Univ. made net news distribution service not free (because
let its administration to out sourcing) with putting a free server 
only for reading.

This may be a recent trend of news system in these days... Is this
the only case in our Univ.?

Kenji