From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 23 10:59:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA22628 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 10:59:29 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA22621 ; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 10:59:21 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id NAA28348; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 13:47:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 13:47:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: NNTP as transport for mail (fwd) To: Joe Greco cc: me@gw.muc.ditec.de, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511231814.MAA08437@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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