Re: Advice on configuring peers and newsgroups in INN2

On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Anonymous <anon@anon.anon> writes:

So far it looks to me like a peer can send anything it wants to my
node, and I have to filter everything to accept and store only the
groups I want. A bad configuration on another peer could chuck a lot
of unwanted bandwidth down my pipe. Or am I missing something?

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That’s correct.

That's wrong

IMO it’s a weakness in NNTP. Peers should be able to automatically
negotiate what is sent to them.

Not NNTP's weakness at all. It might be a weakness with your daemon.
You can do this with IHAVE feeding in dnews, I'd be rather surprised if you cant do this in INN as well.
But if you're not taking a full feed, and want to on-the-fly choose and change without annoying the peers, for simplicity use pull/suck.