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News Admin Survey 2023
2023-08-20 10:36:34 UTC
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NNTP server operators,

Please answer these questions (anonymously is ok).

1. How many NNTP servers do you operate?

2. How many of these are Usenet peers?

3. How many of these are private servers?

4. How many private NNTP nodes or networks do you know about?

5. Why do you operate NNTP server(s)?

6. Which NNTP server software package(s) do you operate?

7. How long ago did you first operate a NNTP server?

8. What benefit do you find with the NNTP protocol?

9. What benefit do you find with Usenet?

10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols?

11. What features or capabilities might you wish to see added to NNTP?

12. Which newsreader software(s) do you use?

13. If any, over which privacy or anonymity networks do you run NNTP?

14. Which NNTP to web browser front end(s), if any, do you operate?

15. Please provide any information about NNTP or Usenet or related
tools and software that you consider useful, interesting, or important.

Thank you.
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The Doctor
2023-08-20 12:38:36 UTC
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NNTP server operators,
Please answer these questions (anonymously is ok).
1. How many NNTP servers do you operate?
2. How many of these are Usenet peers?
3. How many of these are private servers?
4. How many private NNTP nodes or networks do you know about?
5. Why do you operate NNTP server(s)?
6. Which NNTP server software package(s) do you operate?
7. How long ago did you first operate a NNTP server?
8. What benefit do you find with the NNTP protocol?
9. What benefit do you find with Usenet?
10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols?
11. What features or capabilities might you wish to see added to NNTP?
12. Which newsreader software(s) do you use?
13. If any, over which privacy or anonymity networks do you run NNTP?
14. Which NNTP to web browser front end(s), if any, do you operate?
15. Please provide any information about NNTP or Usenet or related
tools and software that you consider useful, interesting, or important.
Thank you.
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Adam H. Kerman
2023-08-20 14:30:53 UTC
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10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols?
There are these fuckheads who try to waste everybody's time by posting
seemingly serious enquiries through paganini whilst feigning anonymity.
Marco Moock
2023-08-20 15:56:34 UTC
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10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the
softwares or protocols?
There are these fuckheads who try to waste everybody's time by posting
seemingly serious enquiries through paganini whilst feigning
anonymity.
Is paganini still being abused by them?
Didn't the operator do something against it?
Seamus Coleman
2023-08-27 20:30:00 UTC
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10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols?
There are these fuckheads
There are also users who use bad language on public newsgroups.
Adam H. Kerman
2023-08-27 22:18:01 UTC
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10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols?
There are these fuckheads
There are also users who use bad language on public newsgroups.
Still have no ability to use that kill file, huh.
Seamus Coleman
2023-08-27 22:59:39 UTC
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Post by Adam H. Kerman
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10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols?
There are these fuckheads who try to waste everybody's time by posting
seemingly serious enquiries through paganini whilst feigning anonymity.
"Still have no ability to use that kill file, huh."
Adam H. Kerman
2023-08-28 01:02:49 UTC
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Post by Seamus Coleman
Post by Adam H. Kerman
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10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols?
There are these fuckheads who try to waste everybody's time by posting
seemingly serious enquiries through paganini whilst feigning anonymity.
"Still have no ability to use that kill file, huh."
How pathetic do you have to be to pretend to be anonymous? You aren't
even the real seamus. It's sad.
Nigel Reed
2023-08-27 08:43:28 UTC
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NNTP server operators,
Please answer these questions (anonymously is ok).
1. How many NNTP servers do you operate? 1
2. How many of these are Usenet peers? 1
3. How many of these are private servers? 0
4. How many private NNTP nodes or networks do you know about? 0
5. Why do you operate NNTP server(s)? Will be for my BBS users and to
provide peering
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6. Which NNTP server software package(s) do you operate? inn
7. How long ago did you first operate a NNTP server? 20? maybe then
took a long break
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8. What benefit do you find with the NNTP protocol? It just works
with minimal configuration
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9. What benefit do you find with Usenet? A lot of knowledgable people
10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols? Abundance of spam
11. What features or capabilities might you wish to see added to
NNTP? more integrated way to block spam. Being able to "dry run" spam
rules without losing articles. Easy way to usenet admins to contribute
to a global spam blacklist.
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12. Which newsreader software(s) do you use? tin, slrn, claws-mail
13. If any, over which privacy or anonymity networks do you run NNTP? 0
14. Which NNTP to web browser front end(s), if any, do you operate?
n/a
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15. Please provide any information about NNTP or Usenet or related
tools and software that you consider useful, interesting, or
important. cleanfeed since it seems to be the only way to block spam.
Thank you.
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News Admin Survey 2023
2023-08-27 11:13:45 UTC
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:43:28 -0500
Nigel Reed <***@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

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Thanks for your response.
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Adam W.
2023-09-13 14:07:19 UTC
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NNTP server operators,
Please answer these questions (anonymously is ok).
Where will you use results of this survey?

Anyway, here are my answers (nothing secret).
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1. How many NNTP servers do you operate?
One.
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2. How many of these are Usenet peers?
One.
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3. How many of these are private servers?
Zero, but I have an unfeeded, local hierarchy.
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4. How many private NNTP nodes or networks do you know about?
A few.
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5. Why do you operate NNTP server(s)?
To keep the Usenet running and accessible, mainly to users in my country
(Poland). My server started as a small project for me and my friends and
now, after more and more servers are closing down, it's the most popular
one in Poland (I have daily stats).
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6. Which NNTP server software package(s) do you operate?
inn
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7. How long ago did you first operate a NNTP server?
Around 2001-2002.
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8. What benefit do you find with the NNTP protocol?
Just a simple protocol to do what it's supposed to be doing.
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9. What benefit do you find with Usenet?
Proper threading, no censorship, very convenient newsreaders, smarter than
average users.
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10. What pet peeves might you have with NNTP, Usenet, or the softwares
or protocols?
There's no good support for embedded binaries. There's MIME, but it's not
a good etiquette to post it, it's removed by filters and article limits,
and some newsreaders can't handle it. The protocol isn't inherently
text-only (and there are binary groups), but most groups and
configurations generally are. Which made perfect sense 25 years ago.
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11. What features or capabilities might you wish to see added to NNTP?
I can't think of any. Maybe better search.
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12. Which newsreader software(s) do you use?
tin
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13. If any, over which privacy or anonymity networks do you run NNTP?
None, my server is not anonymous and was never meant to be.
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14. Which NNTP to web browser front end(s), if any, do you operate?
None, there's no need to. I only have a convenient way on my www to get
article via message-id from my server.
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15. Please provide any information about NNTP or Usenet or related
tools and software that you consider useful, interesting, or important.
Not applicable, I think.
News Admin Survey 2023
2023-09-13 20:02:42 UTC
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:07:19 -0000 (UTC)
Post by Adam W.
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NNTP server operators,
Please answer these questions (anonymously is ok).
Where will you use results of this survey?
I am evaluating information for developing tools and software.

Thanks for your response.
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