Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:52:54 -0400 From: Sysadmin <danlaw@rust.net> To: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk> Cc: "Graydon Hoare ()" <admin@multinet.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <3357FB46.7E51@rust.net> References: <1.5.4.32.19970418141941.006dbfd8@wrcmail>
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Robin Melville wrote: > > 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 :) That would be Planet Connect, now. Pagesat is evidently defunct. Lesee, for US customers $1090+$33/month (1 yr contract). For Europe $988 and you supply the satellite dish and LNB yourself, plus $50/month (VAT & such, perhaps?) For 128K feed of Usenet only, H/W expandable to 256K. According to their website.
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