[3808] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Is anyone running INN successfully?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David C Niemi)
Mon Jul 22 10:56:30 1996
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 04:12:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: David C Niemi <niemi@wauug.erols.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
cc: "Arthur S. Petrossian" <arthur@sci.am>
In-Reply-To: <m0ugafF-0005FbC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I wonder from whom I can get the NEWS traffic if I would install my own
> > NEWS Server for our domain. Are there any Free News servers to get News
> > traffic from them. Or are there any Free News servers to read News
> > directly from them without registering or paying?
>
> On the whole no. However since you are an academic site and academic sites
> tend to work together you may be able to find someone nearby who will feed
> you news. In the UK at least the fees for newsfeeds are normally very small
> anyway since its just an administration overhead which isnt too large.
Most news administrators I know will set up free mutual news feeds with
sites of similar interests, provided your site is (a) set up well enough
not to cause them a lot of retries and error messages, (b) you are
responsive to requests from them to clean up what problems you do have,
and (c) you can feed them enough news in return to make it worthwhile.
Certainly you need to start somewhere; but if you are starting from
scratch take a feed of just a few newsgroups most important to your users
from a small friendly local news server (there are thousands to choose
from) until you get things figured out. Once you get this down, bigger
servers will find it advantageous to talk to you (and you can return the
favor to a smaller server which wants to get started).
Handling a *full* news feed is something only a couple dozen people know
how to do well. Don't even consider it unless you are experienced at
running news, have at least a T1 to the net, have a big fast server with
nothing else to do, and you have several hours a week available for
keeping things running properly.
David
Niemi@wauug.erols.com 703-810-5538 Reston, Virginia, USA
------ Money talks, but it is wrong half of the time. -----
