Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:14:51 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, gpalmer@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970420161451.00a0ed70@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <199704201917.PAA20332@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <5jdpms$dar$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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>Hell, a very large percentage of ISP customers are using it for pornography. >Sex sells, always has, always will. The news statistics SHOW it, what, in the >top 100 read newsgroups 90% are alt.binaries.* related. If you dont carry >those groups, you lose/dont get customers, period. For better or for worse, I agree with the above observation... Sex sells.. Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living, sometimes I feel like smirking, "a purveyor or pornography"... In our neck of the woods, I asked a few of our competitors what their news reader's habits were like, and it generally jived with what we see... Out of the top 100 newsgroups accessed on our system, 5 were non sex/porn/erotica (however, you want to classify it) related. Now, whether or not, its a small group of people hitting the news server hard, or a wide cross section of our customer base, is hard to know. I have never bothered to take the time to analyze it like that... But as someone else posted, if the news server goes down, the phone starts a ringin faster than a UPS can cutover! ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *
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