[45484] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Sat Feb 2 16:35:32 2002
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Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 16:41:13 -0500
To: <jlewis@lewis.org>
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
Cc: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>,
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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At 04:06 PM 2/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
We are a medium sized ISP with about 15,000 customers using connection
types from dialup to T3. We have found that at any given time, we have 5-10
users connected to our news server per hour. Assuming the average session
is at least 1-2 hours for most binaries users and the same people probably
use news each day... .0002% of our users actually use usenet. We have
outsourced news for about 2 years to Giganews and we have found it to be a
far more effective solution for our needs anyway.
-Robert
Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection
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