Re: Is Usenet actually dead?
RES Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:19:44 -0400 RES From: Robert E. Seastrom RES If trends have continued since last I looked at it, very manageable RES after you take out the binaries. Insignificant if you could figure RES out a way to get rid of the flames and spam. :) Usenet - binaries - flames - spam = pretty close to actually dead ;-) Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter.
RE: Is Usenet actually dead?
We operate a transit box, and there are still quite a few of them out there. Pushing hundreds and hundreds of megs. http://news.anthologeek.net/ -Original Message- From: Edward B. DREGER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:48 PM To: Robert E. Seastrom Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Is Usenet actually dead? RES Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:19:44 -0400 RES From: Robert E. Seastrom RES If trends have continued since last I looked at it, very manageable RES after you take out the binaries. Insignificant if you could figure RES out a way to get rid of the flames and spam. :) Usenet - binaries - flames - spam = pretty close to actually dead ;-) Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter.
Re: Is Usenet actually dead?
Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How much *is* Big8 a day these days, though, a gig? I have a 10MBs hose... If trends have continued since last I looked at it, very manageable after you take out the binaries. Insignificant if you could figure out a way to get rid of the flames and spam. :) -r
Is Usenet actually dead?
Opinion pieces in Wired and AG's grandstanding by throwing babies out
with bathwater notwithstanding, a query from a cow-orker caused me to
wonder: is there still anyplace to get a Usenet feed from these days
that isn't {Giga,Super,etc}News? I want to pull maybe 30 or 40 tech
groups into my own server for the 5 or 6 people in my IT group.
In lieu of How It Used To Be, does anyone have data or anecdotes on
which of the commercial providers will let me run a server in-house?
Off-list is fine; I can summarize if anyone really cares anymore. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Those who cast the vote decide nothing.
Those who count the vote decide everything.
-- (Josef Stalin)
Re: Is Usenet actually dead?
Avi Freedman runs a decent service.
Gadi.
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Opinion pieces in Wired and AG's grandstanding by throwing babies out
with bathwater notwithstanding, a query from a cow-orker caused me to
wonder: is there still anyplace to get a Usenet feed from these days
that isn't {Giga,Super,etc}News? I want to pull maybe 30 or 40 tech
groups into my own server for the 5 or 6 people in my IT group.
In lieu of How It Used To Be, does anyone have data or anecdotes on
which of the commercial providers will let me run a server in-house?
Off-list is fine; I can summarize if anyone really cares anymore. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Those who cast the vote decide nothing.
Those who count the vote decide everything.
-- (Josef Stalin)
Re: Is Usenet actually dead?
* Jay R. Ashworth:
Opinion pieces in Wired and AG's grandstanding by throwing babies out
with bathwater notwithstanding, a query from a cow-orker caused me to
wonder: is there still anyplace to get a Usenet feed from these days
that isn't {Giga,Super,etc}News? I want to pull maybe 30 or 40 tech
groups into my own server for the 5 or 6 people in my IT group.
You should be able to get the Big 8 (without any binary junk) fairly
easily. Finding someone who manages your subscriptions using GUP (or
even manually *gasp*) could be more difficult, though, so receiving a
subset is likely not an option.
(I haven't got a Big 8 feed to offer, I'm sorry. The regional ISP I use
offers an NNTP feed managed by GUP.)
Re: Is Usenet actually dead?
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:19:16PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Jay R. Ashworth:
Opinion pieces in Wired and AG's grandstanding by throwing babies out
with bathwater notwithstanding, a query from a cow-orker caused me to
wonder: is there still anyplace to get a Usenet feed from these days
that isn't {Giga,Super,etc}News? I want to pull maybe 30 or 40 tech
groups into my own server for the 5 or 6 people in my IT group.
You should be able to get the Big 8 (without any binary junk) fairly
easily. Finding someone who manages your subscriptions using GUP (or
even manually *gasp*) could be more difficult, though, so receiving a
subset is likely not an option.
Some offlist chatter suggests it might not be that difficult; I'm
investigating more deeply and will report what I can. :-)
How much *is* Big8 a day these days, though, a gig? I have a 10MBs
hose...
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Those who cast the vote decide nothing.
Those who count the vote decide everything.
-- (Josef Stalin)
