[NTLUG:Discuss] Transition to new server

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Monday, 4 September, 2000, Christopher Browne did write:

> On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 13:17:15 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Richard Cobbe <cobbe at directlink.net>  said:

<SNIP>

> > Only one problem: where's the NNTP server for these groups?  Or are they
> > being carried by most local ISPs and just haven't propagated out to mine
> > yet?
> 
> The NNTP server is www.ntlug.org; try:
> % telnet www.ntlug.org 119
> 
> You'll see that it has INN running.
> 
> As Rick said, the forum has been replaced with...
>   "a set of local to ntlug.org newsgroups."
> 
> The word "local" in this context indicates that they _aren't_ propagated
> to other servers.

Yeah, I caught that, but when I looked at the web page yesterday, the links
for the newsgroups in question were, e.g., news:ntlug.announce, which means
"use your default news server".  There was no other indication in the text
of the web page as to where the NNTP server was running.

(I just checked the page again; the links are good now.)

`Local' could also have indicated that it was restricted to the surrounding
area; NNTP *does* in fact support Distribution: headers, even if nobody
actually uses those....

Richard