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| In going back through sff.net's sff.admin.discuss group, I came upon a message that stated that somebody had found their posts to sff.net groups archived on DejaNews (sff.net is a private news board just like lugnet, except focused toward the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: DejaNews and sff.net
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| Okay. received permission to repost. Original post from Jeffrey Dwight (techsupport@sff.net): (...) Comments he wanted added today: (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yes, it'd be easy to do. I'm already planning to set up a caching server for my own use -- it'd be trivial to modify this so it also posts all messages to Media One's (or Boston University's, for that matter) public news server. Not that I'll (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) That might be a good idea. I'm used to usenet, where you can't rely on a cancel working anyway... (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Sarah, Wow, thanks for the info. Now I'm extra glad that From-line validation exists. I don't think it is a problem if someone mirrored these groups in a read-only manner (and it's probably not a bad idea to have mirrored somewhere anyway) but (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) One note about caching NNRP servers: To prevent newbie confusion and abuse, the 'control' group here is write-only; clients can't see it in the groups listing via NNTP, and can't subscribe to it even if they know it's there. This means that a (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I was pointing out though, that, when you get other servers caching the groups that Dejanews and other archivers might get a hold of the articles. Sarah (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Right. But, the other Bad Thing (TM) someone could do is to make their NNRP server also post all messages to a different server. So it pulls down news from LUGnet, and automatically posts those messages to a different, public server. (You'd (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message <362f2475.4780269@lu...et.com>... (...) terminology--?) (...) arise. (...) This is what I do, and yes, it shouldn't cause problems. You can find more information about the software that I'm using at (URL) it does allow (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) What is happening to sff.net is that (several times, at least) someone set up a slurp-style feed from sff.net of (at least) certain groups to another NNTP server. That server then broadcasts ALL of the groups it carries to the servers it (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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