From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 11:08:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B04A16A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1A943D55 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:08:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.247.127]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040404180834.CPHR6671.out003.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:08:34 -0500 Message-ID: <40704F16.4040009@mac.com> Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:08:22 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Maloney References: <20040404125111.GA74222@ns2.wananchi.com> <40704598.4070304@mac.com> <20040404123948.P36505@unix18.sihope.com> In-Reply-To: <20040404123948.P36505@unix18.sihope.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [68.160.247.127] at Sun, 4 Apr 2004 13:08:34 -0500 cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 18:08:36 -0000 Adam Maloney wrote: > More like 50Mbit+, according to stats from someone I know of in the > top-50. > > Before Cidera went under they were feeding us around 30MBit and that was > capped, and somewhat filtered. I can believe it, but my opinions with regard to Usenet news are a little dated. :-) I'm interested in carrying newsgroups that have people talking to other people, not groups full of multi-part binaries of music, warez, robo-posted job offers, and all of that noise. If you refuse (or discard) articles larger than 40K or so, and poison *.binaries, what's left is relatively high in human-produced content and each such feed consumes only 200 Kbs or so. -- -Chuck