From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 16 20:19:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02907 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA02902 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id WAA08172; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:21:06 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma008153; Thu Apr 17 03:20:44 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970416221245.00aea5c8@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:12:45 -0500 To: Michael Dillon From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: News... Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:19 PM 4/15/97 -0700, Michael Dillon wrote: >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.* What amazes me is the amount that collects from crossposting. Worth about 10-15% the total. Our (temporary) fix was a server that will not work, period. The only thing left to swap out is the case and MB standoffs? Out upstream is feeding them. 8-) ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990