[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 17:41 , Anthony Chaumas-Pellet wrote:

> From: Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>
>
>> Really? Most web servers will accept a connection from anybody.  
>> (Unless
>> it's *intended* to be an Intranet.) I'm not quite sure why somebody
>> would configure their NNTP server differently...
>
> The scale of an NNTP server is simply a *lot* bigger than most web
> servers, where you only need as much storage capacity and bandwidth as
> you have content to offer.

Also, expiring old articles is a very expensive operation.  (Yes, I  
used to run a news server, and monitor CMU ECE's internal server.)

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