The Internet refers to a large collection of computer systems around the world that interact with each other using the internet protocol, typically over leased telephone lines. The ability of large segments of the academic and research communities to communicate using this network has given birth to a broad range of discussions, and large archives of useful information. This has begun to change, but it is still the case for most people that useful access is prohibitively expensive. Convenience, bandwidth, archives, privacy , censorship, and cost, are all great reasons. Handling a newsfeed is a pain, and backing it up is both troublesome and expensive.
CD is a cheap medium for storing large volumes of information, and convenient to use.
While you can't use all of the information on the CD, you often don't know what you will need until after you've already lost it. This gives you a permanent archive you can use at your leisure without racking up connect time charges or worrying about expiration. Each disc will have several days worth of material, and producing and shipping the disc takes about 5 days. We include all of the newsgroups we can find, that are intended for worldwide distribution. We do not do any editing, nor does any other network provider.