[45507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Fidell)
Sun Feb 3 13:33:03 2002
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:30:56 +0000
From: James Fidell <james@cloud9.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <a3jsat$tp3$1@ncc1701.cistron.net>; from miquels@cistron.nl on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:34:21PM +0000
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Quoting Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl):
> 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.
Sounds like a plan without any drawbacks to me :)
James
