[106556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Usenet actually dead?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Aug 4 17:49:12 2008
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:33:56 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87vdyg354r.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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
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