This is very interesting, KUNA [Kuwait News Agency] offers a service where you can download news via FTP from their site. Now why on earth would you do that?! XML anyone?

I have worked with Reuters on news service and they have amazing XML feed-service for all sort of news from around the Globe, ofcourse for a fee.

The strangest part in KUNA offering is this:

What are the benefits of FTP?
1. immediate notification of news without using the Internet
2. the FTP service does not stop if internet servers experience problems or are down
3. flexibility in choosing news categories

Now can someone explain to me how do you FTP without using internet or if servers are down?!

Here is the link to their site for FTP service [LINK]