On 9/13/14, Dave McGuire mcguire@neurotica.com wrote:
On 09/12/2014 06:33 AM, Edwardo Garcia wrote:
Depending on your news feed that will get huge over time, and if you try get a back feed of existing posts, thats even crazier, my upstream feeds me over FORTY THOUSAND text newsgroups. thats unrealistic to
How much of these group are active? Or how many post a day on average you get?
I realize you weren't asking me, but just to give you another data point, my server receives about 23,000 articles per day. This is nearly all groups minus the binaries.
feed into imap, just advertise your news server, or if you dont have one, set up inn on a spare machine, hell for a couple thousand users,
We looked at inn, it is, to be blunt, a diabolical mess , the access file is nightmare, it no limit user concurrency or daily limit by default without write external code, if inn is typical, is no wonder usenet is not as popular this days.
With respect, this a load of crap. I was a commercial INN admin for many years, and I run it on my own network to this day. It's a fine piece of software, does its job very well, is easy to manage, and generally gives no guff.
Sorry, but Nick was right, it is severe pain to get to do what we would need, I installed dnews, and oh my god, it is so much cleaner and configurable out the box that it took 10 minutes to configure to be anonymous for users but still logs so we know who does what, and it access file is as simple as postfix! unlike inn, wow so much what they say, chalk and cheese, dnews is a dream, I do like its pull feature for only group we want, running now since yesterday, some staff use, we notify select users who want usenet to use, if everybody happy in one week we ask for license, even if need pay, much cleaner, better, and no stress set up
(Of course this is coming from the perspective of someone who ran C-news, and before that, B-news. B was mostly shell scripts!)
Just try not to look at it as a mail server, because it isn't, and you'll be fine with INN.
I think this might be true if you want allow world access and not care who posts where or how or how many.
And for the record, Usenet is "not as popular these days" because most of the current inhabitants of the Internet are drooling morons who think the Internet and the WWW are the same thing, and that it's all one big TV. They'd never understand the concepts of Usenet in the first place.
Binaries still very popular, maybe for reason nick say