[Wolves] usenet server

[Ron Wellsted]

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Andy Wootton wrote:

> My memory matched Simon's description of NNTP being a 'push' protocol like 
> SMTP. How long has POP-News been around? Does it do everything or just 
> download the headers and is it as efficient? Given the staggering amount of 
> traffic (mainly spam now) on Usenet I'd have thought clobbering a server to 
> feed you, without the site's agreement was anti-social. I'm not talking about 
> Roundyz' single group here but the general situation. If I'd decided I could 
> handle 10GB (or whatever) download traffic a day but another 10 people 
> decided to upload a combined 100GB, I'd be a bit miffed.
>
> Woo
>

Leafnode works like an offline proxy.  When fetchnews is run, it 
downloads all new messages in the subscribed groups and posts any messages 
you have sent.  A daily task expires any old messages.  Every few days it 
checks if the upstream server has added/removed any groups.

I have been running it now for about 7 or 8 years.

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Ron Wellsted
http://www.wellsted.org.uk
ron at wellsted.org.uk
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