Re: Request for Opinion...

["John R. Menerick" <jrmeneri@xxxxxxx>]

I have: but not linux....i have ran a dedicated netware nntp server.  It
isn't that taxing on ram or hardware.



John Menerick

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Tim Carmean wrote:

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> David O. Torrey, Jr. wrote:
> | The new system looks fine to me (I happen to run phpBB elsewhere and think
> | it works quite well).  But out of curiosity, is there any reason not to
> | just run a ordinary old-fashioned NNTP server with just those groups?  The
> | students who were upset are likely heavy users whom I'd expect have
> | well-configured NNTP clients.  They may not like the switch, even though
> | the new system looks nice.  Not everyone likes a web interface -- some
> | still use text. :)
> |
> | As an alternative, have you contacted any student groups about running
> | such a service themselves?  USG or LUG come to mind.  USG operates the
> | ride board, and LUG operates their own IRC server.  Either could get you
> | out of the news business entirely.
> |
> | I'm on the LUG list, so I'll CC it there...
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Dave
> |
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> | | David Torrey                     Sr. System Administrator/Programmer   |
> | | tj@xxxxxxx                       East Engineering Computing Network    |
> | | (906) 487-1405 voice             Michigan Technological University     |
> | | (906) 487-1620 fax                  Houghton, MI 49931                 |
> | | http://www.cee.mtu.edu/~tj/                                            |
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> |
> | On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Dan deBeaubien wrote:
> |
> |
> |>All, ( I sent this to many student services folks as well)
> |>         As you may be aware, we have recently dropped our Usenet news
> |>service as part of the IT budget cuts made over the summer. Although most
> |>of the on-line news articles are available from other sources at no
> cost, this
> |>has also eliminated the MTU.ride, MTU.foresale, and MTU.discuss forums.
> |>
> |>Because we have had an outcry from the students, and because these
> |>services have been heavily used in the past, we have invested some
> effort in
> |>finding low-cost replacement for the local discussion groups.
> |>
> |>To this end, we have put up a test server and are looking for some input
> |>as to the viability of the system. We are in a bit of a hurry as we would
> |>like to make
> |>this service available to students for the upcoming break.
> |>
> |>Please let me know what you think - the sooner the better.
> |>
> |>The service is running at http://news.mtu.edu
> |>
> |>It will most likely be renamed on the web as ride.mtu.edu,
> forsale.mtu.edu, and
> |>discuss.mtu.edu of some such thing)
> |>
> |>log in using your login and ISO password (same as huskymail)
> |>
> |>Thanks,
> |>       Dan
> |>
> |>p.s. Please feel free to distribute this email to other interested
> parties.
> |>
> |>
> |>Dan deBeaubien
> |>Director, Distributed Computing Services
> |>Information Technology, Michigan Technological University
> |>
> |>(906)487-3005   dan@xxxxxxx
> |>
> |
> |
> I'd love to see it happen but I just don't think its feasible given our
> current setup with reguard to CPU, ram, and storage capacity.  Anyone
> have any insight as to how much resources we would need to undertake
> such a thing?  A news server is going to tax the machine a lot more than
> what we are currently getting away with.  On the other hand if we tried
> to undertake this it could be a good bargaining chip when it comes to
> funding for our server and connection (100-full anyone?).  Anyone ever
> try to run their own news server before?
>
> Tim
>
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