Why disable NEWNEWS?

[immibis]

I noticed that NEWNEWS is disabled on a lot of servers, including
eternal-september. It seems like it would be a sensible way to run a
leafnode or a peer that is not always online. What's the reason it is so
often disabled?

[llp]

Post by immibis
I noticed that NEWNEWS is disabled on a lot of servers, including
eternal-september. It seems like it would be a sensible way to run a
leafnode or a peer that is not always online. What's the reason it is so
often disabled?

A question of resources used, i think.
On my server, only admins can use it.

[immibis]

Post by llp

Post by immibis
I noticed that NEWNEWS is disabled on a lot of servers, including
eternal-september. It seems like it would be a sensible way to run a
leafnode or a peer that is not always online. What's the reason it is so
often disabled?

A question of resources used, i think.
On my server, only admins can use it.

But clients are still able to enumerate every group and request new
messages from every group, which seems like a greater use of resources.

[Marco Moock]

Post by immibis
I noticed that NEWNEWS is disabled on a lot of servers, including
eternal-september. It seems like it would be a sensible way to run a
leafnode or a peer that is not always online. What's the reason it is
so often disabled?

NNRP uses POST to inject articles.
Leafnode/Hamster can also use that, they are not like NNTP server to
their upstream.

[Ray Banana]

Post by Marco Moock

Post by immibis
I noticed that NEWNEWS is disabled on a lot of servers, including
eternal-september. It seems like it would be a sensible way to run a
leafnode or a peer that is not always online. What's the reason it is
so often disabled?

Server performance considerations.

Post by Marco Moock
NNRP uses POST to inject articles.
Leafnode/Hamster can also use that, they are not like NNTP server to
their upstream.

NEWNEWS has nothing to do with injecting articles:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3977#section-7.4