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Customers with permanent connections can receive their newsfeed from AAPT's central news server, news.connect.com.au, to their local news server using NNTP, Network News Transport Protocol.
Your news administrator selects which newsgroups will be included in your site's newsfeed. When an article arrives on our server for a particular group, it is distributed to the mail servers at all sites that have selected that group in their newsfeed.
With NNTP when a new article arrives at AAPT's server it is immediately distributed to those sites requesting that newsgroup in their newsfeed.
NNTP runs 24 hours a day. If your news server is unavailable for any period, any articles received from groups in your newsfeed are queued and will be resent when your server becomes available again.
Note: Like many other systems, AAPT does not support the NNTP command newnews because it opens several large files on the server for intense scanning. It then scans many other smaller files creating heavy disk activity.
UUCP, Unix to Unix Copy Protocol, is another type of transport system. While UUCP is used for types of communication other than news, particularly e-mail, it can also be used as a way of delivering batched news articles.
As new articles arrive, rather than delivering them immediately, UUCP creates a batch of news articles. This batch is delivered to the UUCP sites queue in a single hit when the batch reaches a predetermined byte size. This byte size can vary from site to site.
When UUCP sites have downloaded their news batch via UUCP, the batch is fed into a package called RNews which unpacks the articles and distributes them appropriately.
Because this type of newsfeed doesn't require a permanent connection and the batched news is compressed, news can be extremely efficient for UUCP sites downloading news over modems. UUCP software is readily available and it is secure in that it doesn't allow people into your network.
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