Re: Why does this fake product key validate as being genuine
Posted: 28 Mar 2009, 00:46
Full-Quoter Jay wrote:
> I don't take offense at all, just correcting the mis-notion that
> msnews.microsoft.com is a "usenet server". This is a private server
> running NNTP software on, YES, nntp port 119 and it also feeds TO
> and FROM usenet,
With all of that, what makes it a private server?
> that's why you can access these groups on news.east.cox.net
> or news.west.cox.net for example because COX subscribes to
> the feed and so do most other named companies.
Sad little puppy.
Microsoft could turn off that server and we'd still be able to read and
post messages to this news group.
> "Usenet" is comprised of literally thousands of servers that
> grab this feed.
You think that _all_ or _any_ of the posting in the microsoft.* set of
groups do, or must, originate from the Microsoft server? Do you know
how wrong you'd be?
> Microsoft could just as easily disable the feeds and everyone
> would then have to configure it in the news reader of their
> choice but that wouldn't be in their best interest of course.
If Microsoft disabled their feed (or more correctly, ended their peering
arrangement), then the MS servers would continue to operate - in
isolation. If you connected directly to them, you could still read and
write new posts, and they'd be visible on the MS server, but _only_ on
the MS server. Meanwhile, the rest of the world would continue to carry
the same set of microsoft.* groups, and they would end up having
different content (different posts).
> I don't take offense at all, just correcting the mis-notion that
> msnews.microsoft.com is a "usenet server". This is a private server
> running NNTP software on, YES, nntp port 119 and it also feeds TO
> and FROM usenet,
With all of that, what makes it a private server?
> that's why you can access these groups on news.east.cox.net
> or news.west.cox.net for example because COX subscribes to
> the feed and so do most other named companies.
Sad little puppy.
Microsoft could turn off that server and we'd still be able to read and
post messages to this news group.
> "Usenet" is comprised of literally thousands of servers that
> grab this feed.
You think that _all_ or _any_ of the posting in the microsoft.* set of
groups do, or must, originate from the Microsoft server? Do you know
how wrong you'd be?
> Microsoft could just as easily disable the feeds and everyone
> would then have to configure it in the news reader of their
> choice but that wouldn't be in their best interest of course.
If Microsoft disabled their feed (or more correctly, ended their peering
arrangement), then the MS servers would continue to operate - in
isolation. If you connected directly to them, you could still read and
write new posts, and they'd be visible on the MS server, but _only_ on
the MS server. Meanwhile, the rest of the world would continue to carry
the same set of microsoft.* groups, and they would end up having
different content (different posts).