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
This is the last official release of dnews and it's a FreeBSD binary ;-)
Remember 4 weeks trial, after that you have to get a licence, even if
you are a school or univerity, which get it for free.