From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 04:30:11 CST
Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> writes:
> The one thing I could imagine a transit machine to do, is to maintain a
> list over group which are known to be non-existent. But a transit
> machine which has no other information should assume that the Newsgroups
> list is valid.
Not to specifically disagree with your arguments, which I understand, but
I do want to point out that some transit servers most certainly do run
exactly the way tale describes as ideal, using a full active file. One
example is newsfeed.stanford.edu (Freenix #41).
It's been my experience, in watching maintenance of the Big Eight, that
lists of invalid newsgroups aren't a viable way of keeping bogus
newsgroups under control. People who are attacking a hierarchy for one
reason or another can make the list of invalid newsgroups grow without
bound.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>