Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:42:53 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Jacob Suter <jsuter@linus.intrastar.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <27507.861262973@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:10:14 CDT." <3.0.1.32.19970415201014.006ad5fc@linus.intrastar.net>
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Jacob Suter wrote in message ID <3.0.1.32.19970415201014.006ad5fc@linus.intrastar.net>: > 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? Part of the problem with news is that nowadays at least 25% of all traffic (by volume) is commercial spam for sex sites or something equeally lame (mmf, etc). Then there is the other 1-2% of articles (by number) which cancel all the spam. But a lot of the trouble (I think) is that inn is a bloated, out of date, BEAST. A lot of gains can be made by simple code optimization and adding of indexing, etc. However, that won't change the fact that you still need a lot of diskspace to hold the articles. And it's growing. Nothing will stop that (short of dropping alt.sex and alt.binaries like someone else suggested). Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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