Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:19:41 +0100 From: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk> To: "Graydon Hoare ()" <admin@multinet.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970418141941.006dbfd8@wrcmail>
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Dropping news once it has arrived seems to me to beg the question. If you check the proportion of news that you stash that is actually accessed by users it turns out to be a small proportion of the total (unless you're a <huge> ISP). The rest has occupied great hunks of bandwidth to arrive at your system, and everybody else's, and is then thrown away at the end of the expiry cycle. Since news is now such a grotesquely inefficient bandwidth gobbler, it's surely time to reevaluate the whole system. I suppose two possibilities come to mind... 1) I like the idea of the Pagesat satellite news feed system in that it is effectively multicast and removes the multiple transmission of the same stuff around the Net; 2) a smaller number of passive news repositories responding to local ISP cacheing news server requests -- only the news that's required gets d/l. Just my two-pennyworth :) -------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction & Forensic Information Service Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team (Extn. 49178) Vox: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 Email: robmel@nadt.org.uk WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt/ ---------------------------------------------------------
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