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Re: DejaNews and sff.net
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:17:34 GMT
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:16:02 GMT, "Alex Wetmore" <alex@phred.org>
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> article, not the entire set of newsgroups. I have a feeling that this is
> something like what the sff people are seeing. I don't see why its a
> problem... the message was destined for Usenet anyway (via RTL in my
> example). No, I don't make postings of this sort.
> I think that the only way in which dejanews could pick up the entire set of
> lugnet groups would be if someone setup a slurp-style feed from lugnet to
> their own box, then fed this feed into dejanews. There isn't really a good
> way for you to stop this (you could deny their IP address access to your
> server, but they could just as easily move their server). I also don't
> think that this is likely to happen.
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 shares news with -- and these sff.net
newsgroups are being broadcast along with the normal UseNET groups.
And somewhere along the line, it gets broadcast to dejanews. So
Jeffrey has to find the source server that is slurping in the first
place, to ask them to stop.
If they won't stop, then he blocks them. Sure, they can move the
server. But then he blocks again. And moving IPs disrupts other things
as well so is not to be undertaken lightly.
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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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