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On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:31:19 +0000, ~BD~ wrote:

> FromTheRafters wrote:
>> ~BD~ wrote:
>>> FromTheRafters *appears* to be saying this statement is wrong:-
>>>
>>>> Or if you want to host the group yourself then go out and purchase a
>>>> Server with a server OS and get a dedicated T3 line and off you go. You
>>>> will have complete control of the group and you will also be able to
>>>> delete posters that post to your group without any effort and at your
>>>> will and whim. (statement made by P. Foldes)
> 
> *
>>> So how *does* the first post of a new group get 'out there' and
>>> propagated around Usenet?
> *
> 
>> Hosting a group is different from creating a group.
> 
> I understand that!
> 
>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-creation-guide/
>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/creating-newsgroups/part1/
> 
> Thank you. Very informative information.
> 
> I believe there is truth in what Foldes has said (although I'm quite 
> certain that a T3 connection is unnecessary!)
> 
> I _suspect_ that *if* the person hosting a specific newsgroup 
> ('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.
> 
> Surely someone other than PF has an answer?!!

You may have seen some websites that carry a certain number of newsgroups.
This is done through scripting and an active account just as you would have
on your own machine.
It varies from site to site as to how often "headers" are updated.
You ask, can the owner delete the posts based on an IP?
If it is a website, yes.
That's nothing more than operating the newsgroup as a standard bulletin
board. However, IP's may not always be correct. I'd say that the IP that is
shown would be the one coming from the news service that post originated
from, not the individual poster.
So if you deleted based on an IP, then you'd wind up deleting all the posts
from that service.
Because a certain person was going around cancelling usenet messages by the
thousands, servers began to deny cancellations by third parties, and then
many decided not to accept cancel requests at all.
So once it got posted, it's there for the duration.

A T1 connection is the absolute minimum one would need for operating a news
server. Then, it would have to be a dedicated server as well.