Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:18:54 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> Cc: danlaw@rust.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binaries in Usenet (was: News...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970419171247.9125B-100000@obiwan.psinet.net.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970417221535.00ba8d44@mixcom.com>
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> Another problem I see is systems that allow control messages to create > groups, which is why snicker when I see "Over 26,000 news groups!" How > about the number of legitmate groups. Worthwhile to have around would be a Hehehe. I tried explaining that to the owners. Our "free" dedicated link for news (which may I add is now saturating a 64k ISDN totally 24 hours a day, this is for news *ACCESS* to our clients from a remote server, not news *FEED*) has about 8000 groups. Our carriers' news server has the 26,000 ish group count, but noone believes me when I say most of them are disused / inactive groups. Since we ARE being charged 19c a meg, and lots of clients read news, it makes me wonder if its a conspiracy on our IP providers part to rip us off. I'm *NOT* going to get into the ICP traffic from our squid to theirs, (they want us to peer with their proxy, saving them money .. under 1% hit rate? *giggle*) Enough rambling. :) Adrian
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