Re: Why can't we just "reset" Usenet?

Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/27/25 7:26 AM, D wrote:
> > Could you recommend a small, simple news server?
> 
> InterNetNews (INN) has been my go-to news server for nearly two decades.
> 
> I don't think it's as hard as some make it out to be.  In fact, I think 
> there is more to learn about running a Usenet server independent of the 
> news server software chosen than there is to learn about said news 
> server software.  --  Sort of like learning how to drive, the rules of 
> the road and paying attention to others takes more mental energy than 
> how to drive a (most) given car.

  Fully agreed. I used to run INN when I was a (part-time) news admin in
some tiny 150K employee company and it wasn't hard at all.

> > I looked at leafnode and it works. I don't need peering 
> > functionality.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're going to do with a news server without peering. 
>   But that's your choice.

  I think 'D' is going to 'suck'/post news from/to a 'real' new server.
AFAIK, leafnode is a 'proxy' news server, which sits between one's
newsreader and one's real news server. To the newsreader  it looks like
a news server and to the real news server it looks like a newsreader,
i.e. uses ARTICLE/POST to retrieve/'send' articles.

  I use Hamster on Windows, wich works in a similar way. My real news
server (NSP, News SP) is News.Individusl.Net.

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