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Re: Private boards?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:32:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > > LUGNET is not an NNTP server.
> > >
> > > LUGNET is the international network of user-groups of LEGO products.
> > >
> > > For the benefit of LEGO users and user-groups worldwide, LUGNET runs an
> > > NNTP server on lugnet.com for NNTP news/discussion groups, an HTTP server
> > > for web-based activities, and has HTTP & SMTP gateways to the NNTP news
> > > server.
> >
> > And the server name for that NNTP service is lugnet.com. So lugnet.com is
> > an NNTP server.
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> Nope, lugnet.com is not an NNTP server. lugnet.com is a second-level domain
> name. The machine which identifies itself as lugnet.com is a FreeBSD box
> which is _running_ an NNTP server. (Servers are software, not hardware.)
> The same physical machine is also running an HTTP server (actually multiple
> instances), an FTP server, etc.
I understand what you mean, but if someone asks me what's the NNTP server
for LUGNET, I'll still answer "lugnet.com". It's not news.lugnet.com, or
nntp.lugnet.com, just "lugnet.com".
Steve
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| (...) Nope, lugnet.com is not an NNTP server. lugnet.com is a second-level domain name. The machine which identifies itself as lugnet.com is a FreeBSD box which is _running_ an NNTP server. (Servers are software, not hardware.) The same physical (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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