Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:12:36 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Pete Carah <pete@ns.altadena.net> Cc: jsuter@linus.intrastar.net (Jacob Suter), isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <29895.861293556@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:55:34 PDT." <199704170755.AAA13430@ns.altadena.net>
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Pete Carah wrote in message ID <199704170755.AAA13430@ns.altadena.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? > > Not to speak of the net itself; we (not a particularly major player, > but we get independent feeds from 3 of the "top 1k") are currently > getting between 1 and 2 gb/day in, the great majority (all but about 300mb) Your lucky. Most `full feed' sites average 5 gigs a day, with 7 gigs a day not unusual over fri/sat and towards the end of the month (end of the month? wonder why ... what happens at the end of the month? OH! FreeNIX computations! I wonder if some sites are DELIBERATELY spamming to up their ratings artificially *SIGH*) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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