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| | | (...) Todd -- are you open to the idea of creating an actual LUGnet news network? This would be good for people in far-flung places, and reduce _your_ load. I realize that it causes issues with centralized control, etc., but as long as you only (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Speed? —Alex Wetmore
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| | | | | Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) The easiest way for this to occur wouldn't require any work on Todd's part at all. Someone in Europe could install a caching NNTP server (such as nntpcache or dnews) and set up lugnet as a parent server. The (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Speed? —Richard Franks
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| | | | | | | Oook - it seems to be fairly nippy again now - it's probably best to let it settle for a little while before making judgements *blush*. At best it's just a teensy tad slower than my internal news server, and at worst.. well - I should be working (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Speed? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Right, but as it is Todd has some little bit of control -- and can log -- who posts and reads. And since this _is_ his project, I assume he wants to keep that. (Certainly helps with the spam problem.) Otherwise, why not export lugnet.* to all (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Speed? —Alex Wetmore
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| | | | | | Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) client (...) Some people (at least myself) are reading the news through a proxy/caching server though, so his logs aren't going to be 100% correct. He knows this in my case, since I was one of the people who (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Speed? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Yuck. That takes away one of my favorite things about news here. Instant access to other people's posts. I understand the concern about one location, etc, that you have, but I'm just not that worried about it. Todd and Suz are young, appear to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Speed? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yeah, but with a small news network, delays would be minimal -- nothing like getting from one side of Usenet to the other. (26 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
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