[45482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Sat Feb 2 16:06:40 2002
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:06:03 -0500 (EST)
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To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> Perhaps the same time the end-users (whose fees go towards paying for the
> hardware, presumably) say "we don't want binaries anymore."
It would be interesting to survey the customers and see:
A) how many would care if we didn't provide usenet
B) how many would care if we didn't carry any binaries
C) how many have never heard of usenet
I suspect A and B would be small, and C large.
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