my own news server

[member 141630]

Hi,

I want to set up my own news server (thats the easy bit). Already working with a feed from my ISP. But I don't want to use my ISP news feed (for a number of reasons).

But my query is "Where do I get my news feed from assuming no ISP"

There are plenty of ISPs that I can pay to get a feed from, but the burning question is "Where do the ISPs get THEIR feeds from??!". If I get a feed from my ISP, where does the ISP get their feed from? And their upstream that provides a news feed has to again pull their feed from somewhere else....
Where are news messages stored? - There has to be a 'top level' location (or locations) that all feeds eventually feed from....

I can't find this information documented anywhere, and boy I've looked hard. The replies to previous posts, FAQs, readme's always seem to go rather grey and fuzzy when it comes to getting a feed - "Contact your ISP or a news feed provider" is always the standard reply. That's the easy bit. Where does the ISP get news feeds from?



Best Regards and thanks in advance

Phil B

 

[sedj]

Example : the BBC :

Open google, type in "rss feed bbc"

Click search.

Ta da !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss091.xml

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[chiph]

News (usenet) is a peer-to-peer system -- all the news servers exchange content with each other. So in theory, once you have a connection to one of them you can exchange news with any news group.

In reality, most news servers have limits, both on the groups they carry (some admins have objections to the content of some groups), and the volume (the binaries groups can really eat up disk space). So you might need to be in touch with more than one news feed in order to get all the groups you want.

Read more at

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html

Be aware that because of the volume of spam on newsgroups, you may be drinking from a firehose, and you could trigger bandwidth restrictions from your provider.

Chip H.


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