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RE: NNTP feed.
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:27:29 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, John van Oppen wrote:
we don't run one either... :) The last person I know who was running one, was in the proccess of killing it.
I used to run one, but haven't, since about 2000 :) The provider i worked for at the time got out of the game and outsourced news because otherwise we would have needed to dump a lot of money into disk space to keep people from bitching about the sub-24 hr retention times on alt.binaries.$VICE :(
That was the blessing and the curse of cyclical filesystems, I guess :)On the plus side, Highwind's news server software just flat-out ran - never gave me a single problem in the 3 years I ran it. That plus a separate box running diablo to manage the feeds was a winning combination :)
More and more people are outsourcing news because providing good news service requires tons of disk space and loads of network bandwidth, i.e. it costs a lot of money to operate, and for many providers, it doesn't make any money.
The last time I looked at newsfeed stats, a full feed with all the alt.binaries crap was running around 350 GB/day - I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's substantially higher now.
jms
Current thread:
- RE: NNTP feed., (continued)
- RE: NNTP feed. John van Oppen (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Deepak Jain (Sep 05)
- RE: NNTP feed. John van Oppen (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Jeroen Massar (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Mikael Abrahamsson (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Greg Boehnlein (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Stephen Sprunk (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Matt Ghali (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Andrew - Supernews (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Deepak Jain (Sep 05)
- RE: NNTP feed. John van Oppen (Sep 05)
- RE: NNTP feed. John van Oppen (Sep 05)
- RE: NNTP feed. Justin M. Streiner (Sep 05)
- RE: NNTP feed. Justin M. Streiner (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Daniel Roesen (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Simon Lyall (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Richard A Steenbergen (Sep 05)
- Re: NNTP feed. Elijah Savage (Sep 06)