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From: news@zzo38computer.org.invalid
Subject: Re: Well hello gemini
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:47:34 -0800
Message-ID: <1641446313.bystand@zzo38computer.org>
7 <7@no.spam> wrote:
Are you interested in sharing any feeds with other private NNTP servers?
I have found a few private NNTPs that I lurk and I'm always looking for
more. My faves are news.tilde.club and news.grc.com. There are others,
especially in fidonet / bbs spaces.
I am willing to do, but do not currently have the capabilities set up on
my server to support this (I should probably need to enable IHAVE (it is
implemented, but no access controls are implemented at this time, and it
is not currently enabled nor thoroughly tested) and to implement a program
that can forward messages to other servers, perhaps by cron or anacron).
Maybe in the next few weeks I will try to implement the required
capabilities on my server, and then will post again once I have done so.
However, if you have your own NNTP server, you can post right now (if you
wish) about the requirements. (I may also try to implement a Gemini server
within the next few weeks too, maybe.)
Note that I do not have a static IP address. It is dynamic, but it rarely
changes. The computer is also not always on (although it usually is, and
if it fails one time, it is possible to try again later). Furthermore, I
do not have a huge amount of bandwidth and disk space, and do not want
huge numbers of messages to be sent/received. (I do not have a problem if
other servers it is linked to do not have a static IP address, but if they
lack a static IP address then they must have a domain name.)
I would want to ensure that there is no namespace collision, though. I
had made up "Unusenet" to avoid namespace collision, so it is used for my
own newsgroups. The specification of Unusenet is:
number of domain name components, or zero for a special Unusenet namespace
(such as a UUID; none others are currently defined, though).
the domain name that the namespace belongs to, which would normally be the
server that the newsgroup originated on; it is not necessarily the server
that the newsgroup is potsed to or received from.
be whatever the namespace owner wishes them to be.
Unusenet names are supposed to be purely ASCII; if a domain name contains
non-ASCII characters then it is encoded as Punycode. (This does not
restrict the character encoding of the messages, which can be anything;
they do not have to be pure ASCII, but usually are.)
(An example os "un2.org.zzo38computer.admin", which orginates on
"zzo38computer.org" (my computer); however, the name would still be
"un2.org.zzo38computer.admin" even if it were also accessed from a
different NNTP server (it is not changed to the name of that server).
(This is just an example; while such a newsgroup exists, it is probably
not the one that would be wanted to be made available on other servers,
since it is for administration of my own NNTP server.))
I will not require the Unusenet naming scheme to necessarily be used if
including newsgroups from other servers, but if you do not use it, then
you must specify another way to avoid namespace collisions.
I want to link my own NNTP server to as many of these private ones as
possible, but without any of the big8 or alt or defunct public
heirarchies. Basically only organizational / club / association
hierarchies from private servers.
That is OK; my own NNTP server is not linked with big8, alt, etc. However,
it is also OK with me if others have my newsgroups in addition to big8,
alt, etc; Unusenet is designed to avoid the namespace collision. But if
it is not linked to any servers that have big8 and alt, that is also OK.
A few dozen servers like that, sharing select common interest feeds,
would be a strong social, collaboration and research network.
Yes, it would be a good idea.
(Note: I hope I had not made any mistakes in the above. It look like OK
to me, but I may have missed something.)
--
Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.
Parent:
Re: Well hello gemini (by 7 <7@no.spam> on Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:32:31 -0600)
Start of thread:
Well hello gemini (by Kévin <usenet.m4o5b@id.oh.mg> on Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:44:51 +0200)