[45505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Sun Feb 3 12:35:35 2002
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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:34:21 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <cistron.g3lmeao4x1.fsf@as.vix.com>,
Paul Vixie <vixie@as.vix.com> wrote:
>Pull it, rather than pushing it. nntpcache is a localized example of how
>to only transfer the groups and articles that somebody on your end of a
>link actually wants to read. A more systemic example ought to be developed
>whereby every group has a well-mirrored home and an nntpcache hierarchy
>similar to what Squid proposed for web data, and every news reader pulls
>only what it needs. Posting an article should mean getting it into the
>well-mirrored home of that group. Removing spam should mean deleting
>articles from the well-mirrored home of that group.
Yes, but who's going to set up the home for movies/pictures/warez/mp3
groups? Nobody, ofcourse, since most stuff is not very legal.
But those groups are 98% of todays traffic.
So if you *do* manage to switch everybody over to that new system
and turn off the old usenet, the new system isn't needed anymore.
Mike.
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