Why use a Private Newsfeed ? Where is your normal news server? China? America Online? A provider in France? Belgium?  Beware, wherever you are!! Your internet provider can see in their modem logs which user is connected to each of their modems at every point of time. And they can see what modem node is using their own news server and what newsgroup the user on that modem is reading and even what exact articles and pictures that user is downloading.A news server logs your activities by default! You may not have known this, but this is the truth. It is possible to turn the logging off. But almost NO newsmasters have done this, sometimes at the request of the police in their country. One way to fight is to read your news from a server on secure ground! There have been cases where police received permission to go through the logs of internet providers to find people who may have downloaded material posted on internet news groups that happened to be illegal in the specific city or country of download.