From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 6 9: 5:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net [129.250.36.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8838D14D32 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:05:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: from [129.250.38.63] (helo=dfw-mmp3.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 126GME-00068f-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:05:54 +0000 Received: from [157.238.16.49] (helo=bilver.magicnet.net) by dfw-mmp3.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 126GLZ-000798-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:05:14 +0000 Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA08341 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:02:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:02:11 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) Message-ID: <20000106120210.B8244@bilver.magicnet.net> References: <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <200001061647.LAA26911@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> Organization: Vermillion Consulting Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:47:55AM -0500, Thus Spake Mitch Collinsworth: > BTW, is 7 years of full-time news without a failure a record for disk > longevity? Drat - forgot one thing. The original RS machine used B news - and if the news feed used over 13 bit compression - the 1MB max memory limit in hardware would make decompression take so much longer than transmission it was unuseable. One time someone sent a days worth of news with 16 bit compression turned on and it took almost 24 hours to unspool it. Probalby a whipping 20 MB! :-( Things surely have gotten much better -- Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message