As a dial-up user, I find it extremely useful to have access to the full range of cvs functionality whilst offline. Some other projects provide read-only rsync access to the CVS repository, which allows a local copy of the repository to be made, not just a checkout of a particular version.
Since access to xemacs cvs on sunsite.dk is already provided in this manner, perhaps it would be possible for wget, as well? Thankyou, Max.