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Question for Usenet Providers: Adding, removing, and Altering newsgroups

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Faux Dameron

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May 8, 2020, 2:59:39 PM5/8/20
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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?

For example, if someone creates a newsgroup do you monitor those requests
and add it to your service or are you limited to only adding newsgroups
that upstream provides?

Grant Taylor

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May 8, 2020, 5:58:00 PM5/8/20
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On 5/8/20 12:59 PM, Faux Dameron 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?

It depends.

It's possible to configure some server to accept any group, which means
that groups will be created as needed.

It's possible to automatically act on newgroup notification messages
after PGP (GPG) validation.

It's possible to have everything be manual.

> For example, if someone creates a newsgroup do you monitor those
> requests and add it to your service

(See above.)

> or are you limited to only adding newsgroups that upstream provides?

There's no external limit on what newsgroups you can have on a server.
It's trivial to have local newsgroups that aren't carried by other servers.



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Neodome Admin

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Jun 1, 2020, 7:02:30 AM6/1/20
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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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