[45480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sat Feb 2 15:41:04 2002
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:40:35 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: "jlewis@lewis.org" <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> [1] at least it's free to the poster....not to the networks that keep
> having to build ridiculously larger news servers. The first news server I
> ran for an ISP had 4GB...and that was for the OS and articles. The most
> recent has 18GB for OS, 288GB for articles...and it's obviously obsolete
> if others are accepting 300GB/day. When are the operators going to draw
> the line and say "no more" to binaries?
Perhaps the same time the end-users (whose fees go towards paying for the
hardware, presumably) say "we don't want binaries anymore."
-- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben --
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