Stuart Summerville wrote: > I'm not totally "facted-up" on how usernet hierarchies work, but if > someone like Netscape sets itself up as some sort of original source of > information for a newsgroup (ie. the main/final repository), then > doesn't that mean that they have to ensure that enough high-availability > disk space + bandwidth is available, regardless of which other > downstream server feeds are pushing it to users like you & me? > > Those numbers might pale in comparison to what the collective usenet > servers of the world might be providing, but its presumably still > significant for open-source efforts like that of Mozilla. > > sTu.
yes. and these newsgroups are _not_ part of usenet, they are only officially served off the netscape news servers [ secnews.netscape.com and news.mozilla.org] and thru the mozilla news <-> email gateway some ISPs are echoing them, but they are really local newsgroup and not part of usenet ( as are any groups not in (news|alt|sci|comp|net)) dave
