[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

ACP> Daily traffic on the whole of the Usenet takes up a few
ACP> terabytes, and you presumably want to store more than one day
ACP> worth of Usenet traffic. You also need to keep in sync with the
ACP> other Usenet servers, as you are not the sole provider of
ACP> content.

NNTP server are not requiered to mirror all of USENET, you know. In
particular, imaginary nntp.haskell.org NNTP server wouldn't be
required to mirror ANY part of USENET except for (imaginary also)
haskell-related groups. In fact, NNTP is about the same as HTTP - but
without all that Web20 mess.

Of course, if you are an ISP, you would probably want to mirror USENET
to make your users happy; but if you're not, you don't need it.

ACP> Unsurprisingly, my ISP only authorizes its own users to access
ACP> that particular service.)

But it doesn't block their access to OTHER NNTP servers, I guess. And
if it does, it's a pretty good reason to change ISP. Actually, it was
a good reason for me, since I needed access to ddt.demos.su server,
which seems to be one of the few, hosting fido7.ru.* newsgroups.