Why not a private news server?

[gabe]

I wonder if you have a clear understanding of the technology (or if you have stock
in Onelist ;) ).

How, first of all, how would a spammer find our private news server without a
really knowing we are there (as we would NOT, I repeat NOT be on the USENET), and
second of all, how would he then post without a valid userid and password (which
could be setup as an e-mail address)?????  Spammers are lazy, and will not go thru
that much trouble to spam a small, specialized group such as ourselves.

A private news server would be invisible unless you know it's there, kinda like
having a web server on the net, but not advertising it's existence and not being
on the search engines.  No one can find you without directly typing your address,
then when they do, they need a username and password to view or post.

It's absolutely, at least as spam proof as Onelist, probably more.

You must be misunderstanding a what a private news server is.  Like I said, even
the free NNTP server that comes with NT will accomplish what we need, and keep
spammers out (UNIX is probably far superior).  I setup this very senario on my own
NT server in about 1 minute.

The only interest I have is keeping the list and archives going in the best way
possible.
Gabe

David Cooley wrote:

> At 09:54 AM 11/29/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, David Cooley wrote:
> >
> > > Because everyone, including spammers has access to public *AND* private
> > > news servers.
> > > With a mail list, the function of verifying a user before they can post to
> > > the list is available.  Keeps spam off the list.
> >
> >A private news server is less likely to be used by spammers than either
> >onelist or a public news server.  Except it will be Onelist that will be
> >the ones spamming you.
>
> I'm on several "private" news servers and they get as much spam as the
> alt.* groups... every 2nd or 3rd post is spam.
> Onelist does not spam.  Look up the definition of spam.
>
> >As it is right now spammers would have no problem getting on the list, but
> >we dont really have a problem with it, do we?
>
> Actually they do... The list requires a VALID email address that can be
> verified before the subscriber can post.  News servers, Public and private
> do not.
> Wondering if you have a financial interest in the private news server????
>
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