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~BD~ wrote:
> FromTheRafters wrote:

>> Hosting a group is different from creating a group.
>
> I understand that!

Not well enough apparently.

> I _suspect_ that *if* the person hosting a specific newsgroup

That line's premise indicates your confusion between the administration 
of a news server and 'something else' which only you are imagining.

> ('test.here', for instance) wishes, they could, indeed, have access to
> the IP address of anyone/everyone connecting to that newsgroup and, as
> PF says, delete individual posts from the group.

Creating a 'proper' (as opposed to a rump or improperly/inadequately 
created group with suboptimal propagation) new group is a process for 
which the best results are obtained if traditional guidelines are followed.

Choosing to host a news server and decide which groups the server will 
carry is a completely different subject.

Then, choosing to 'open' that news server to access by the public is yet 
another subject altogether.

aioe and eternal-september are examples of publicly accessible news 
servers of usenet text groups, e-s requiring reg and login, aioe not.

annexcafe is an example of a publicly accessible news server of 
'non-usenet' or private groups requiring reg and login.

moz or news.mozilla.org is an example of a publicly accessible news 
server or specialty server not requiring reg or login.

It doesn't require a great deal of bandwidth to host a 'trivial' or 
personal private news server that doesn't have to handle much traffic, 
nor such a trival webserver or ftp server.

You should brush up on news for newusers somewhere like

What newsgroups are and how they work 
http://www.anta.net/misc/nnq/how-it-works.shtml

If you access someone's news server to read or post, the admin of that 
news server can log your IP.  If the news server you access to post 
stamps the NPH nntp-posting-host, anyone can see your posting IP.


-- 
Mike Easter