Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 01:35:43 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: brian@hyperreal.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail throughput (was: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901040134570.417-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199901040106.RAA03430@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> > X-Sender: brian@hyperreal.org
> > Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 13:44:02 -0800
> > From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>
> > Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
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> >
> > At 07:24 PM 1/2/99 -0800, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> > > news seems to have even more flamage than the mailing lists.
> > > with mail i can control spam, with news everyone would have to
> > > control spam.
> >
> > Unless you run a localized newsserver. news://news.freebsd.org/ for example.
>
> all news servers would hvae to send all news to
> news://news.freebsd.org/ and only news://news.freebsd.org/ would be
> allowed to send news to any other site......there's that bottleneck
> again....now it'll be larger quantities of news (rather than mail)
> less frequently.
>
> perhaps i have misunderstood.
I think he was suggesting setting up a local news server that everyone can
connect to to read a "freebsd.*" set of newsgroups...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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