On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 3:31 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:19:28PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 6:05 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > > > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > > It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer > protocol. > > > > > Any group of NNTP servers configured to connect to each other form > a > > > > > network. Anyone can run an NNTP server. While it once required a > VAX > > > > > with a T1 to act as a Usenet "backbone" site any desktop with > broadband > > > > > can easily handle it now. > > > > > > > > .... > > > > A Raspberry Pi is overkill. > > > > > > > > > > Then my Arduino Mega is full-on High Performance Computing ???? > > > > By the standards of 1975, it is a minicomputer suitable for > > supporting a business with four terminals: accounting, sales, > > secretarial, and production. > > To resurrect another paleontological meme (the older among us > will know): "can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?" [1], > [2] (How time passes: ref [2] tells me the joke was already > "pathetic" and "died a long time ago" in... 2005 :-) >
Now it must be said :-) In 1998 I was running usenet's 19th largest NNTP transit point. On a discarded Pentium with a 100Mbit ethernet card for external comms. Luckily I could attach it to a full-duplex port on a router, not half-duplex. Way more effective bandwidth :-D (Trying to quench a zombie thread with a zombie meme might lead > to something... interesting, don't you think?) > > Cheers > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster > [2] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beowulf_cluster#What_Is_Funny_About_.2F._Jokes.3F > > - t >
