XPost: alt.free.newsservers, news.software.nntp   
   From: eagle@eyrie.org   
      
   coyo  writes:   
      
   > So wait a tick, Usenet peering is based on policies, just like Border   
   > Gateway Protocol (BGP4+) does? Manual inter-organizational peering   
   > relationships are negotiated based on carrier policies and contracts.   
      
   It's nowhere near that formal.  It's mostly just people who are willing to   
   exchange news with each other, and has all been very informal.  It's   
   fairly easy to get a complete feed of text newsgroups, since it's such a   
   tiny amount of data by modern standards.   
      
   Now, the binary peering Usenet is a whole different world, and I don't   
   know much about it.  There's enough data there that you have to care about   
   performance and tuning and bandwidth and so forth.  Most people peer   
   non-binaries.   
      
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   Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)                 
      
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