new innd server, newsfeed question.

[Chip Mefford]

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Russ Allbery wrote:
| Chip Mefford <cpm at well.com> writes:
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|>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.
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|>I want to offer newsgroups, and have no interest at all in binaries,
|>(folks can get that from paid services).
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|>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
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|>When, years ago, we had news feeds, they were raw. Has that
|>changed? Can one subscribe a server by hierarchy?
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| 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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Okay,

That's good to know. Got a phone call with them this afternoon,
I'll enquire.

Thanks kindly for your response.

- --chipper
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