From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 17 09:13:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA17806 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:13:40 -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 JAA17797 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id MAA05992; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:12:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id MAA29897; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:12:36 -0400 (EDT) To: Pete Carah cc: jsuter@linus.intrastar.net (Jacob Suter), isp@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: News... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:55:34 PDT." <199704170755.AAA13430@ns.altadena.net> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:12:36 -0400 Message-ID: <29895.861293556@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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