Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 13:47:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: me@gw.muc.ditec.de, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: NNTP as transport for mail (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9511231331.L20122-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199511231814.MAA08437@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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anyone interested in this thread. please subscribe to freebsd-hubs. On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > >By two staging all list implementations: > > > > Say, does this look like news or not? Maybe we should actually consider > > using news as the "backbone transport" between the various exploders? > > Locally they then can be sent out to the end users via mail or be kept > > as newsgroups at larger sites (ok, I'm using newsgroups here locally, > > so I'm biased, but then, its so much easier to look through the lists > > if they are a) in separate newsgroups b) subjects are threaded). > > > > This would of course be done by explicit nntp links between e.g. freefall > > and the local exploders, keeping delays down to what we're used from > > mail. > > I suggested this many months ago and got thoroughly shot down, people did > not understand the difference between using NNTP as a long haul distribution > protocol (perfectly designed, flood fill algorithm, etc) and using NNTP as a > method to reach the end user. > > I would suggest using NNTP strictly as a transport protocol. Bury the > articles in an encoded format in a moderated newsgroup, so that people don't > try to use the transport newsgroup to read or post messages. At each hub, > you can install channel feeds for the transport newsgroup that pipe the > articles into an extraction/verification filter. The filter then turns > around and submits the decoded and verified message into Sendmail (and/or > INN under a different group name). > > As manager at a number of major news servers, I can provide some of the > connectivity. > > It is really an excellent distribution method, particularly if you run two > or three links to each node... I'd be willing to work on this IFF there is > any interest in it. > > ... Joe > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net > Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 > Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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