John Hasler wrote: > It's also important to understand that NNTP is a peer to peer protocol. > Any group of NNTP servers configured to connect to each other form a > network. Anyone can run an NNTP server. While it once required a VAX > with a T1 to act as a Usenet "backbone" site any desktop with broadband > can easily handle it now.
Indeed, "A VAX with a T1" is actually a reasonable approximation of what's needed -- that is, 1 MIPS and and a megabit/second of bandwidth will do pretty well. A Raspberry Pi is overkill. -dsr-
