Faux Dameron <
fauxd...@mailfence.com> wrote:
> Do you automatically accept the newsgroup list that your upstream provider
> gives you or are you responsible for keeping your own list of newsgroups
> up to date?
Most servers nowadays are keeping their own list of newsgroups.
> For example, if someone creates a newsgroup do you monitor those requests
> and add it to your service
My server automatically adds alt.* and free.* newsgroups provided correct
control message was sent by creator.
> or are you limited to only adding newsgroups
> that upstream provides?
Bigger servers and newstransit services are propagating articles even if
they don’t belong to any group carried locally. There are servers that have
no groups, they just propagate all articles they receive regardless which
group those articles belong to.
Most servers that I know of have no “upstream provider”. I guess correct
name would be “peer”, because there’s usually more than one peer, and none
of them is treated differently than others.
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