Re: Where to find accurate number of Usenet Servers?

On 10/8/21 12:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I agree with it being impossible to list all usenet servers but not
> participating with top1000 doesn't exclude them from being counted.

Agreed.  But it does move thee task of enumerating ~> counting Usenet 
servers from a simpler lookup type problem to a more complex header 
analysis type problem.

> If they have no outbound feeds where posted articles on their server just
> stay local, ok, that's possible.

;-)

> But if they have any outbound servers they feed articles to, eventually
> their path will be detected and then counted.

Maybe.  Maybe not.

Consider, if you will, three parties / Usenet servers; A, B, and C. 
Where B is the source of connecting A and C; A---B---C, and B is the 
main connection to Usenet.  B could have things configured to allow A 
and C to share all articles with each other while not sharing their 
articles with Usenet at large.  Thus users of A and C could comment on 
Usenet articles but their comments would not go out to Usenet at large. 
There are probably a number of ways to do this, distribution headers and 
/ or group filtering comes to mind.

> I guess it depends on what you mean by "private server". But if it 
> is a truly private server (no outbound feeds), does that really count 
> as a usenet server?

Does a server need to /send/ articles /to/ Usenet to participate in 
Usenet?  Is it not sufficient to /receive/ articles /from/ Usenet and 
have users read said articles?  }:-)



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