new innd server, newsfeed question.

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Jan 6 19:13:27 UTC 2005


Chip Mefford <cpm at well.com> writes:

> It has been over 10 years since I administered an inn server.
> I am finally getting my own autonomous service (a T1 from AT&T) to
> host a small community ISP.

> I want to offer newsgroups, and have no interest at all in binaries,
> (folks can get that from paid services).

> AT&T offers a newsfeed as part of their service, and I am honestly
> scared of using up my whole pipe just piping lots of stuff to
> /dev/null

> When, years ago, we had news feeds, they were raw. Has that
> changed? Can one subscribe a server by hierarchy?

It is definitely possible to feed someone only particular newsgroups or
hierarchies, or to exclude particular hierarchies.  Now, whether AT&T
offers that service is another question, but usually an ISP will.

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