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Chapter 16. Effectively Managing Usenet Feed Growth

Table of Contents
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Split Feeding
16.3. Splitting Incoming Feeds
16.4. Loopback Prevention
16.5. Hurricane Numbering
16.6. Spool Aggregation
16.7. Putting it all Together

16.1. Introduction

When building and configuring a Usenet architecture a difference often exists between making it work and making it work right. The difference is subtle, in most cases, until optimizations are made. Only then will your bandwidth bill be cut in half, or your servers be twice as available or some other proverbial light bulb will light up and make you gasp What was I thinking?. Then again, maybe you're just interested in setting up a full and robust Usenet architecture - either way, we hope this helps.

The goal of this technical article is to outline some essential Usenet article architectural and routing concepts that allow you to:

If you doubt that Usenet is still growing after 20+ years, see the graph below:

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