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Re: Speed?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:52:32 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMnomorespam.ORG
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Alex Wetmore <alex@phred.org> wrote:
This wouldn't change any of the control that Todd has over the groups.  As
far as lugnet is concerned the caching server just looks like another client
and has the same control and properties as any other client on the system.

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 of usenet? Most servers these days pick up any
hierarchy they can.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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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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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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