Re: potus@lists.debian.org
John Hasler wrote:
> It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer protocol.
> Any group of NNTP servers configured to connect to each other form a
> network. Anyone can run an NNTP server. While it once required a VAX
> with a T1 to act as a Usenet "backbone" site any desktop with broadband
> can easily handle it now.
Indeed, "A VAX with a T1" is actually a reasonable approximation
of what's needed -- that is, 1 MIPS and and a megabit/second of
bandwidth will do pretty well.
A Raspberry Pi is overkill.
-dsr-
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