[151801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Fri Mar 30 21:37:35 2012
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:36:53 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1203301927470.2201@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Joe Greco wrote:
>
>> Those of us still doing work with USENET know that it isn't dead, far
>> from it, but we're aware that there's a certain amount of illicit
>> traffic.
>
> A certain amount? Even years and years ago, when I last ran a server,
> I'd wager porn and warez was statistically "all" of the traffic.
>
>> It's kind of like the way that pr0n and w4rez dominate all the Internet,
>> but this doesn't seem to faze Internet network operators.
>
> Perhaps because the pr0n and w4rez are just bits on the wire for most
> operators, not terabytes of disk space on servers we own.
Yeah.. but that's like saying video is all there is on the Internet. I
don't know about the rest of you, but I exchange a LOT more email every
day that the number of videos I watch, but... the bandwidth involved in
all that email pretty trivial, even counting all the list traffic going
through our list manager.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
