On Jul 13, 2007, at 17:41 , Anthony Chaumas-Pellet wrote:
From: Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Really? Most web servers will accept a connection from anybody.
(Unless
it's *intended* to be an Intranet.) I'm not quite sure why somebody
would configure their NNTP server differently...
The scale of an NNTP server is simply a *lot* bigger than most web
servers, where you only need as much storage capacity and bandwidth as
you have content to offer.
Also, expiring old articles is a very expensive operation. (Yes, I
used to run a news server, and monitor CMU ECE's internal server.)
--
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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