From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 15 19:24:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00109 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pinky.junction.net (pinky.junction.net [199.166.227.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA29995 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by pinky.junction.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA30197 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:24:44 -0700 Received: from localhost (michael@localhost) by sidhe.memra.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA17989 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:19:32 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:19:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: News... In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970415201014.006ad5fc@linus.intrastar.net> Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jacob Suter wrote: > After looking over recent messages about news servers, it appears as if > NNTP is a very wasteful use of system resources. Has there been any > advances in the replacement of this waste-o-bandwidth? Yep. It's called asking your upstream NNTP feeds to *NOT* send you alt.binaries.* or alt.sex.* Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com