Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 15:19:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailing lists Message-ID: <199505312019.PAA00965@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199505311842.LAA06714@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Charles Henrich" at May 31, 95 02:42:35 pm
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> Dont do something assinign like that, as I said in another message I already > one-way gateway into newsgroups here at MSU, and its entirely to useful. I can > actually read and track ALL of the damn lists with no problem. Users still are > forced to email to the list to get posts in, so we cut way down on any garbage > noise. A boiler plate is stuck on the end of each message explaining that a > post here wont do any good. > > I've also named the groups lists.freebsd.* so its very apparent whats what. You missed the whole point. NOBODY is discussing Usenet. I am suggesting the use of a transport mechanism for communications between regional mail hubs. I have a transport mechanism which provides redundancy and fault tolerance in a distributed environment. We can use it to allow the mail hubs to pass their messages back and forth in a reliable fashion. It just happens to be the netnews mechanism. Use of the netnews mechanism to provide internodal communications does not imply a "one way gateway into newsgroups" or any other such stuff. All of which is totally independent of the point I am trying to make and apparently flew right over everybody's head. I want to move data from Point A to Point B. I choose to use pre-existing tools and technology, much the way Hesiod is piggybacked on DNS, and decide to encode and encapsulate my data within a standard netnews posting. I post the article. Since it is encoded (uuencoded, perhaps), nobody can make sense of it. It is in a "private" hierarchy, anyways. Because I've set up a few high speed nntplinks, I can "flood" my little mini-news-transport system fairly quickly (maybe 3 or 4 hops from the US to Moscow), and rapidly transmit messages around the globe. Each regional mail hub then snags these messages and redistributes them to the regional members of the list. This has nothing, nada, no connection with Usenet - other than the fact that it is probably piggybacked on top of a small number of existing Usenet spools, since that's probably more convenient to do. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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