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    From phoebe@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 19 09:45:03 2020
    hello -

    i have been working on rolling my own news server and want to do better understanding how exactly usenet functions instead of just standing up
    innd. i was trying to understand if peering exactly was documented
    anywhere, so i wanted to ask if it was based on rfc 4644, or if there
    are other sort of considerations i should keep in mind while setting it up.

    i could (and prob will) just read the innfeed source, but wanted to
    double check that i was on the right track

    thanks

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  • From qwerty@ui.op@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 19 15:00:38 2020
    Hi,

    well, (news)peering is basically just sending articles to another. And in
    this group we discuss peering, but also request newsfeeds (a stream of articles). The practice peers do exchange a feed is called peering.

    Possibly based on constraints (everything, big8, only alt.obscure). And in
    my case I just distribute everything I receive to others. But also posts originated on my own server.

    That's about it, really. Detailed questions about how to configure innd
    can be asked in news.software.nntp.

    Does that answer your questions?

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  • From phoebe@21:1/5 to qwerty@ui.op on Mon Oct 19 12:47:52 2020
    On 10/19/20 11:00 AM, qwerty@ui.op wrote:
    Hi,

    well, (news)peering is basically just sending articles to another. And in this group we discuss peering, but also request newsfeeds (a stream of articles). The practice peers do exchange a feed is called peering.

    Possibly based on constraints (everything, big8, only alt.obscure). And in
    my case I just distribute everything I receive to others. But also posts originated on my own server.

    That's about it, really. Detailed questions about how to configure innd
    can be asked in news.software.nntp.

    Does that answer your questions?



    not exactly - i was curious more of the nitty-gritty, but that's good background information. i will look in news.software.nntp, thanks a lot!

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to phoebe on Tue Oct 20 00:02:17 2020
    On 10/19/20 7:45 AM, phoebe wrote:
    hello -

    Hi,

    i have been working on rolling my own news server and want to do
    better understanding how exactly usenet functions instead of just
    standing up innd.

    Okay.

    Questions are a good opening for us to answer. ;-)

    i was trying to understand if peering exactly was documented anywhere,
    so i wanted to ask if it was based on rfc 4644, or if there are other
    sort of considerations i should keep in mind while setting it up.

    Yes, there are other things to consider.

    First, peering at a high level is an agreement to exchange articles.

    Part of that agreement is /how/ the articles are to be exchanged, and
    what format those articles will be in.

    - Network News Transfer Protocol is one of a handful of ways to peer.

    - Unix to Unix CoPy is another way to peer.

    - It's also possible to exchange articles with File Transfer Protocol.

    - People used to write news articles out to tape and exchange them.

    - You could probably even exchange articles via Kermit if you wanted to.

    - Then there's remote access to a news spool and copying articles.

    NNTP and UUCP have some implications on what format the articles are in.
    FTP, tape, and Kermit are more flexible.

    I'd say that NNTP, followed at a distance by UUCP, are by far the most prevalent methods to peer for Usenet.

    i could (and prob will) just read the innfeed source, but wanted to
    double check that i was on the right track

    Seeing as how INN relies on system provided UUCP package, I doubt you
    will find nearly as much about it compared to NNTP, which INN supports internally.

    thanks

    You're welcome.



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