Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> writes:
Adam Back:
Public access servers aren't a good idea. Really people should be running local access servers only. The index is local, cache is local, and USENET is a distributed broadcast medium.
True.
Where do these private access servers get/send their traffic ultimately?
Local eternity servers get their data from a news feed. Preferably a local news feed, or a satellite based feed, or second choice SSL encrypted NNTP server, third choice NNTP server. (Reason for local news feed being preferabl is that it protects the NNTP traffic which would otherwise allow eavesdroppers to observer which articles you were reading. SSL is only a partial solution because you are then trusting the SSL NNTP server operator.) Local servers don't generate any traffic, "local server" is really a misnomer, it is a local proxy for reading news... it presents a view of USENET articles which makes them appear as web pages. It keeps copies of those web pages more up to date versions are read in news, this allows fast access to the web space. There is a trade off between update period and size of web space as the amount of USENET traffic you can generate without annoying people is limited. Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`