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Re: DejaNews and sff.net
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:45:38 GMT
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sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a Princess...) writes:

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 Science fiction, fantasy, and horror
genre) Sff.net is private. It does NOT propagate itself. However,
somehow, people have been mirroring them anyway.

Their admin, Jeffrey Dwight, wrote basically that they have not found
a way to stop this yet. I have written him to see if I can repost his
message here.

I thought you guys should know about this. If its happening to them it
might happen to lugnet as well

Sarah Heacock
sarah@eskimo.com


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 if they started accepting articles, then things could
get pukey.

But if someone runs an NNRP server (I think that's the right terminology--?)
and acts as a normal NNTP client, then theoretically no problems will arise.
I think this is what Matt M. is looking into...(?)

--Todd



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: DejaNews and sff.net
 
(...) 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)
  Re: DejaNews and sff.net
 
(...) 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)
  Re: DejaNews and sff.net
 
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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  DejaNews and sff.net
 
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)

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