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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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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 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 (...) (28 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Speed?
 
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 (...) (28 years ago, 5-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)

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