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by quilnux
716 days ago
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I guess what I mean is, there is a lot of things that Usenet does because back in the 90's we didn't have a lot of the technology we have today. Today there are more solutions then there was which means Usenet doesn't need to be the host for things like binaries, and the like, which tend to be most of the storage consumption problems that would keep people from self-hosting on the existing network. If we started over, not utilizing binary storage and a few other things, would that not make Usenet a better service with less storage requirements? Or am I just missing it completely? |
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Not sure if this is what you mean, but there are several news servers that only pull the non binary group feeds. Some of them are free. As simonblack mentioned, there would just need to be a significant effort to show people how easy it is to use them. This would include how to filter out spam, or filter in known-good people and content.
As wmf mentioned, you can also host your own node (leafnode or hamster). I have not run them. What limits you put on the server would be up to you and who you replicate to/from would be up to you much in the same high level concept IRC servers can be interconnected assuming the admins of each set of servers agree with each others policies.
Why would this be a bad idea?
As with self hosting any software there is the matter of having a documented policy on acceptable use, how you will remediate illegal material, handle abuse complaints, etc... It is not something that can be set and forgotten about. As to whether or not that is a bad idea depends on how much free time and patience you have. The people you replicate from would have to have to perform the same due diligence as you. So basically the same issues as running chat, forum, wiki, fediverse, shared email, chan and other servers. Running any of these things requires the cognitive fortitude, lack of bias, patience, ability to deal with challenging people and so on. In other words, what dang and team do here 24/7/365.
There is some additional information here [1] on running your own news servers.
[1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Usenet#How_do_I_run_a_local_Use...