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Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
From: <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:36:04 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
bandwidth in/out. That produces about 300Gb per day of which only a small fraction ever gets downloaded. The question is, and apologies if I am behind the times, I'm not an expert on news... how is it possible to reduce bandwidth used occupied by news:
Abolish all binary posts / binaries groups. IMO, posting binaries to usenet is a throw back to the days of low speed networks and few people having the capability to put up their own FTP/HTTP accessible files. These days, it's just abused as a free warez network and free porn hosting/advertising. How else can you send MS Office or 100MB of porn jpegs or mgegs to thousands of people for basically free[1]? [1] at least it's free to the poster....not to the networks that keep having to build ridiculously larger news servers. The first news server I ran for an ISP had 4GB...and that was for the OS and articles. The most recent has 18GB for OS, 288GB for articles...and it's obviously obsolete if others are accepting 300GB/day. When are the operators going to draw the line and say "no more" to binaries? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis () lewis org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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