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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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