Jay Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My statement/reply was in reference to the physical location of the
> server that hosts these groups. It's in Mountain View California and
> this SERVER feeds usenet.
A newsgroup isn't hosted on a specific host.
A mail-to-news gateway may be, but that is a different matter.
There may be an organisation that is in charge of a usenet
name space, like netscape.* but to call that `hosting it on
a server' seems only to confuse.
People in this discussion seem to think a usenet group has
'upstream' and 'downstream'. It doesn't. The propagation
algorithm is flood based and not hierarchical. There's no
authoritative server + echos/mirrors/etc., it is a peer-to-
peer protocol.
Bottom line, if Netscape's server disappeared then the news
groups could continue to exist, though the people who used
the Netscape server to access them would have to find a new
one. That would include users of a mail gateway.
None of this applies to newsgroups that are hosted on one
machine only and not shared with the rest of Usenet. This
doesn't apply to the mozilla newsgroups.
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