From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 17 00:43:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA16819 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:43:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA16814 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id DAA08056; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:42:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id DAA27509; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:42:54 -0400 (EDT) To: Jacob Suter cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: News... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:10:14 CDT." <3.0.1.32.19970415201014.006ad5fc@linus.intrastar.net> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:42:53 -0400 Message-ID: <27507.861262973@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 But a lot of the trouble (I think) is that inn is a bloated, out of date, BEAST.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