* sreangsu acharyya [linux-india] <07/06/01 16:16 +0530>:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> > news.vsnl.net.in is a pretty good version - at least it doesn't allow open
> > posting to all and sundry. Only thing is it has a lousy newsfeed and
> > propogation times ...
>
> but its ( was ?) read-only for all practical purposes, one's replies never
> make it beyond their server.
That is basically deliberate. VSNL's news server - and their entire ip
space - is under permanent probation from an UDP (usenet death penalty) due
to a lot of usenet spam flooding from their netspace, and from
news.vsnl.net.in
> these services are quite usefull as one can queue up your replies as
> mails. Mailgate posting via mail and also monitoring of specific groups
> through key-words.
yes.
> > _full_ newsfeed would take care of at least 6 T-1s of bandwidth.
> ;)
and dont even think of the GBs of disk space ... it's a dream come true to
have that much infrastructure... news servers are monster boxes
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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