max.bane
07-24-2005, 09:36 AM
Hi,
I'm thinking of running an NNTP server on my VPS. It would only serve a handful of newsgroups frequented by me and my friends, and would allow posting as well as reading.
Does anyone have any experience running a Usenet server? I've read several of the howto's and docs that are out there, and I have a pretty solid understanding of how the usenet works. But I'm not clear on how exactly I go about finding upstream servers who will feed me messages from the newsgroups I'm interested in... and how to find downstream recepients so that messages posted by my users will be propagated. Do you just have to know other usenet server operators to get started? Or are there servers out there that will feed to anybody who asks and accept message-sends from anybody who offers them? How do I get "in the loop"?
I'm thinking of running an NNTP server on my VPS. It would only serve a handful of newsgroups frequented by me and my friends, and would allow posting as well as reading.
Does anyone have any experience running a Usenet server? I've read several of the howto's and docs that are out there, and I have a pretty solid understanding of how the usenet works. But I'm not clear on how exactly I go about finding upstream servers who will feed me messages from the newsgroups I'm interested in... and how to find downstream recepients so that messages posted by my users will be propagated. Do you just have to know other usenet server operators to get started? Or are there servers out there that will feed to anybody who asks and accept message-sends from anybody who offers them? How do I get "in the loop"?