We reserve the right, of course, to comply with whatever the law turns out to be. Subscriptions for 12 discs and 24discs are available. I recommend all of the freely redistributable news servers on cd. Yes, all of the commonly available news groups are included. In the future changes will be made and appropriate software will be available.
Choices are a matter of taste, but gnus and dxrn are probably good ones.
This may change in the future, with gzip compression used to save space. If so, we will include software to make that transparent. The discs themselves are ISO 9660 format, which will work with everything. Software is included in the first disc of the subscription which enables subscribers to use the information on a wide range of platforms. If you have a particularly unusual system, talk to us.