Hi retrofolks and tildeministrators,

I'm aiming to start a thread that is likely to be very long-lived,
about books, where people come to drop book recommendations
swap reading lists, something of that sort.

The problem is which newsgroup this kind of threads (about books,
mostly physical books) should go into?

- tilde.text, where all posts there seemed to be about digital text so far?
- tilde.meta, the jack of all discussions?

Or should I request a new newsgroup for this kind of thing? Like...

- tilde.art.literature (does not exist yet)
- tilde.books (does not exist yet)

Please advice.

Regards,
~xwindows
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xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

The problem is which newsgroup this kind of threads (about books,
mostly physical books) should go into?

I dunno but I want to follow it.

~petra
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"petra" <petra@tilde.town> writes:

xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

The problem is which newsgroup this kind of threads (about books,
mostly physical books) should go into?

I dunno but I want to follow it.

Same! I think .. if it's just going to be in a thread, tilde.text. If
you think it could be many threads about a bunch of different books,
make a new tilde.art.books or tilde.art.words or something. (If you can
of course -- I'm assuming you can since you're talking about it, but I
have /no idea/ how newsgroups work, lol)

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What about expiration?
Isn't it a shame that lots of nice stuff will vanish after some months?

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For something as small-scale as this server, I wonder if it's a good
idea to turn off expiration? (Or if that's even possible)
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xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

The problem is which newsgroup this kind of threads (about books,
mostly physical books) should go into?

- tilde.text, where all posts there seemed to be about digital text so far?
- tilde.meta, the jack of all discussions?

Or should I request a new newsgroup for this kind of thing? Like...

I'd say put it in tilde.text, whose description *does* read "all things
text". e-books, reflowable text, all written things are still... text, or at least textual.

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Arch <archenoth@tilde.town> wrote:

For something as small-scale as this server, I wonder if it's a good
idea to turn off expiration? (Or if that's even possible)

It's possible, a number of Usenet servers no longer expire
articles, even some free ones. The only drag could be that some
people have their newsreaders configured to download every article
heading every time they visit the group, it's usually possible to
limit that to eg. 500 max. in the settings, but those who keep
downloading everything might account for a lot of server load
eventually.

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That seems...bad

Maybe requests could be rate-limited after X amount of bandwidth if
something like that starts to get overwhelming for the server? Hm
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Is there any way to set the expiration to be tied to size, as opposed to
time? Maybe a cron job that checks the size of the spool, and updates
the nntp expiration to a non-infinite time if the size gets above, say,
500mb?
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Me too. Did this ever happen?

petra <petra@tilde.town> wrote:

xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

The problem is which newsgroup this kind of threads (about books,
mostly physical books) should go into?

I dunno but I want to follow it.

~petra

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On 2021-05-03, lkosov <lkosov@tilde.town> wrote:

I'd say put it in tilde.text, whose description *does* read "all things text". e-books, reflowable text, all written things are still... text, or at least textual.

I still think having it seperate is a good idea. If I only want book suggestions it would be easier to not have shift through all the other tilde.text content and just only see books talk. As a side note maybe we
can use the the "Keywords:" tags or whatever they are called to denote
book posting from regular ones.
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m256@tilde.institute writes:

Since the size is so small at the moment I assume all the news is
still archived on the server somewhere but is just not served to the
users. I have no idea how Usenet actually works so idk.

Usenet is a set of groups/hierarchies that may be delivered by several transports. NNTP just is one of them.
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