1. Google owns Usenet
2. When Google Groups stops archiving Usenet articles later this month,
Usenet will go away
3. Existing active Usenet discussion newsgroups must move to another
forum now, or be lost
4. There is no discussion on Usenet anymore
5. There are no moderated newsgroups on Usenet
6. Usenet costs a lot of money, and is technically difficult, to access
6. Usenet costs a lot of money, and is technically difficult, to access
(etc.)1. Google owns Usenet
2. When Google Groups stops archiving Usenet articles later this month,
Usenet will go away
And which mythical god has anointed these as "current" and "top"?
"The best thing I can offer is this:
http://panix.com/v-colo/plans.html
I run my news server with a full-ish, non-binary feed on a V-C 2 package
from Panix. That's a 6GB RAM system, 10-20GB of disk space, and the
network isn't an issue at all; and I use the machine for other purposes
too (email, personal login, etc). This would obviously need to be more >robust if the server was used by lots and lots of people, but I don't
feel like co-location would be a significant problem nowadays.
On Wed, 14 Feb 2024, Paul W. Schleck wrote:
6. Usenet costs a lot of money, and is technically difficult, to access
Good evening Paul,
How much compute, network and storage to you need to run a news server?
I thought about trying it out for myself under the protective "roof" of
my own company. That way I can also deduct the cost from my profits
while being of some use to others. =)
Best regards,
Daniel
I run my news server with a full-ish, non-binary feed on a V-C
2 package from Panix. That's a 6GB RAM system, 10-20GB of disk
space, and the network isn't an issue at all; and I use the machine
for other purposes too (email, personal login, etc). This would
obviously need to be more robust if the server was used by lots
and lots of people, but I don't feel like co-location would be a
significant problem nowadays.
Why would they do this when Panix already provides a news server which
is very well-run?
kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
I run my news server with a full-ish, non-binary feed on a V-C
2 package from Panix. That's a 6GB RAM system, 10-20GB of disk
space, and the network isn't an issue at all; and I use the machine
for other purposes too (email, personal login, etc). This would
obviously need to be more robust if the server was used by lots
and lots of people, but I don't feel like co-location would be a
significant problem nowadays.
Why would they do this when Panix already provides a news server which
is very well-run?
Habit, mostly.
- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org) (He, Him, His)
--
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2. It's full of trolls.
3. The above cannot be eliminated from any distributed system.
immibis <news@immibis.com> wrote:
1. It's full of spam.
2. It's full of trolls.
3. The above cannot be eliminated from any distributed system.
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