Hello Neil
> 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.
That's a customer services issue, how quickly one can drop a newsgroup which
is not used.
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.
Hopefully people will only drop for two weeks holiday or so.
> 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.
When I had more time, I used to love misc.business.marketing.moderated and
isp's used to continually drop it while the dnews request list would show
obscure sex binaries groups active. Really unfair as my feed was less
than one picture or, surprisingly from a groups title, noise file.
John
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