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Does Microsoft have a newserver?
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"Jeff T" wrote in message ...
Does Microsoft have a newserver? No. They shut them down back in 2009, IIRC. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP 2004 ~ 2010 Imperial Beach, CA |
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On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 11:27:56 -0600, "Jeff T"
wrote: Does Microsoft have a newserver? See Bruce Hagen's reply, and let me add that their newsgroups (like this one) still exist because their newsgroups were echoed by almost all other news servers and are stilled carried by them. So, weird as it may sound, even though Microsoft doesn't have a server that carries the Microsoft.public... newsgroups, others do. |
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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 11:27:56 -0600, "Jeff T" wrote: Does Microsoft have a newserver? See Bruce Hagen's reply, and let me add that their newsgroups (like this one) still exist because their newsgroups were echoed by almost all other news servers and are stilled carried by them. So, weird as it may sound, even though Microsoft doesn't have a server that carries the Microsoft.public... newsgroups, others do. And it happened that way, because Microsoft did not issue signed control messages from their server. Other NSPs would have been only too willing to remove the groups in question (not a part of the Big 8), if they had received properly formatted signed control messages. And that's why the groups continue to be echoed by the other servers. It's a mesh, and servers can exchange submitted posts, until all servers have the same content. Meaning, the Microsoft server doesn't have to be running, for it to work. That's also what makes USENET robust, during a hardware failure of any individual node. There was an individual, who was issuing pseudo control messages for the Microsoft hierarchy, to make it easier for NSPs to manage their servers. When the Microsoft cleanup was done a few years before the Microsoft server was shut down, I think the pseudo control messages were available to help coordinate that. But at shutdown (of the Microsoft server only), the NSPs had the choice to leave the remainder running (as they still had traffic in them). The cleanup two years earlier, was done to remove the groups that didn't have traffic. If signed control messages had been sent for the remaining approximately two thousand groups, you'd have nothing in microsoft.* hierarchy. Microsoft never sent any control messages from their end. Control messages have to be signed, to prevent easy forgery. Much of the content in alt.* is due to individuals sending control messages. Much of the control structure is turned off, to prevent such things from happening. When control messages do arrive, I expect a human examines them, before they're applied to the server. The usage of control messages to handle available groups, exists to make the NSP job of managing group lists easier. Otherwise, you'd have to go through a list of 100,000 groups, deciding whether to keep or turf stuff, by hand. Paul |
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Paul wrote:
Ken Blake, MVP wrote: "Jeff T" wrote: Does Microsoft have a newserver? See Bruce Hagen's reply, and let me add that their newsgroups (like this one) still exist because their newsgroups were echoed by almost all other news servers and are stilled carried by them. So, weird as it may sound, even though Microsoft doesn't have a server that carries the Microsoft.public... newsgroups, others do. And it happened that way, because Microsoft did not issue signed control messages from their server. Other NSPs would have been only too willing to remove the groups in question (not a part of the Big 8), if they had received properly formatted signed control messages. Actually many Usenet providers declared they would NOT drop the microsoft.public.* newsgroups regardless of Microsoft issuing a proper request or not. When asked, and of those that responded, the admins said they would not drop those groups even with a proper request from Microsoft. They considered those newsgroups too important for peer support despite Microsoft abandoning Usenet all under the excuse they wouldn't support their defunct NNTP server and refused to use anyone else's NNTP server (e.g., INN). Besides, the content was not Microsoft's property. There was some boob pretending to be an official rep of Microsoft but his cancel submissions were ignored. |
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From: "Jeff T"
Does Microsoft have a newserver? Newserver ? or News Server as in hosting NNTP over TCP port 119 ? Two "different" things all together !! -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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