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Okay, except your complaint had to do with (apparently) "having a single server go down does not take down an entire discussion group."

Now I'm not going to claim I know NNTP well (I don't), and I'm not going to claim I know Usenet well (I don't), but what I know about email is that unless all you have is one server, one server going down does not take out an entire discussion group.

Since you have failed to provide any details about Usenet related to redundancy, load-balancing and/or fail-over, all I'm going to say is that throwing up a backup server for accessing the mailing list and operating it wouldn't be a big deal. Perhaps Usenet can do this without having more than one server? Cool?

I don't think it's useful though. The mailing list isn't really so critical that it can't handle a couple hours of downtime.

On 6/25/2014 10:49 PM, Coyo wrote:

The modern Usenet is based on NNTP, which is based on email. Usenet has
a different mindset and history than regular email, and have a different
approach to spam control, but the formats and protocols are very similar.

You can accomplish anything with email, if you bastardize the protocol
hard enough. For instance, people are forcing web servers to perform
webfinger, webwhois, webthis and webthat.

They are recreating Usenet with RSS and Atom feeds, PubSubHubBub and
Salmon. Usenet was doing friend-feeds before it was cool, before
Facebook and Twitter was a twinkle in their fathers' eyes.

Sure, in theory, you could do it with email, but why fix what ain't
broke? If you were going to do it with email, you'd gain nothing.

On 6/25/2014 3:24 PM, gp AT gparent.net wrote:

You say that as if we couldn't accomplish the same with email.

On 2014-06-25 19:25, Coyo wrote

On 6/25/2014 12:44 PM, Jeff Taylor wrote:

On 06/25/2014 11:19 AM, gp AT gparent.net wrote:

On 2014-06-25 16:44, Alex Hanselka wrote:

My servers and all of their services will be down tonight for
maintenance.

We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

I'll get the tar and feathers ready...

This is one of many reasons why I love Usenet. Having a single server go
down does not take down an entire discussion group.



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