[mythtv-users] Mooting architecture for a DataDirect replacement

[Yeechang Lee]

Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> says:
> Partially, yes.  I can see people like Yeechang Lee running servers
> for the appropriate hierarchy to which they permit access by others
> -- at least other Myth users.

Sure. I have CPU cycles to spare on that quad-core Xeon and the kinds
of newsgroups we'd be talking about would, I think, be pretty minimal
in terms of disk space (compared to the typical 20,000-group newsfeed)
and, assuming enough other upstream and downstream newsserver nodes,
bandwidth. I obviously can't provide any meaningful uptime-reliability
guarantees, but I do have 102 days' uptime and counting on said
server. I'd need someone to provide DNS aliasing, though, so my box
resolves to something sf.ca.us.feed.mythtv.org (and one of the boxes
in the pool that resolves to ca.us.feed.mythtv.org and
us.feed.mythtv.org), though.

That said, I've never run INN or any other newsserver; my Usenet
experience, although more than 15 years in duration, has been strictly
as a consumer, not a provider. I am not worried about learning care
and upkeep for a newsserver; however, I can't guarantee that my setup,
as sophisticated as it is, will be sufficient to handle the kind of
traffic necessary.

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