On Jul 13, 2007, at 17:41 , Anthony Chaumas-Pellet wrote:
From: Andrew Coppin
Really? Most web servers will accept a connection from anybody. (Unless it's *intended* to be an Intranet.) I'm not quite sure why somebody would configure their NNTP server differently...
The scale of an NNTP server is simply a *lot* bigger than most web servers, where you only need as much storage capacity and bandwidth as you have content to offer.
Also, expiring old articles is a very expensive operation. (Yes, I used to run a news server, and monitor CMU ECE's internal server.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH