John Block said,
> or change isp or look for a free newserver. I find ones running dnews
> software are good because they only take the news subscribers are
> requesting instead of 100's of meg of alt.porno.hamster on the off chance
> someone will want to see it.
It's good in theory but less effective in practice. As evidenced by the
number of ISPs that have tried it and reverted to more traditional
means.
One problem is that as son as one subscriber takes a peek into
alt.porno.hamster they have to take a full feed of that group until it
is considered dormant again. It can also cause problems for news clients
that use article numbers, as most do nowadays, because dropping and
restarting a group can mess this up.
And it's not 100s of megs, a full news feed is over 100GB per day now,
with MP3s and warez using far more of that than porn. Text news, the
original usage, now accounts for 4% of traffic.
Neil
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