FWIW, checkout of these things took 5+hrs, staying on the local
.freebsd.org net w/o hitting the 'net at all.
As promised,
$ time cvs ci
real 67m51.701s
user 0m1.250s
sys 0m5.345s
that dynamically "learns" which newsgroups should be
collected from a given news server.
Originally submitted by: Patrick Yu <pyu@rogidi.com>
I received "mailbox full" messages when I tried to contact
the author, so I've given myself as the maintainer for
the time being ('till I hear from Patrick).