[92070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NNTP feed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Boehnlein)
Tue Sep 5 19:42:02 2006
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:41:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0609060124030.21489@uplift.swm.pp.se>
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>
> > seems to be loads of people doing a lot of posting and reading, where else
> > would the volume of that traffic come from?
>
> I guess experiences differ from different organisations, when I discovered
> that server-server traffic was at least 10x more than people actually read
> (server-client) I didn't feel like trying to get my (then) employer
> continue running the NNTP server.
>
> My feeling today (or rather, 3-5 years ago) is that NNTP is used instead
> of bittorrent and other PtP protocols to move copyrighted material, and
> I'd say that it probably makes more sense for some to let their users
> invest in that drivespace than to have themselves run an NNTP server and
> spend operational resources on keeping it running well.
>
> I've also heard people complaining about a few NNTP users causing a lot of
> helpdesk tickets in respect to "single message missing" because they
> cannot download that 4.7 gig ISO correctly because a message got lost
> somewhere in the middle.
I came to much the same conclusion several years ago, when we finally
decommissioned our NNTP Servers and out-sourced the service to an outside
company. Running an NNTP server was a full-time job, and the 500 or so
people that used it didn't generate enough revenue for us to continue
managing it inside.
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