From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Apr 19 02:30:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA05610 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obiwan.psinet.net.au (obiwan.psinet.net.au [203.19.28.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA05595 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.psinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA09185; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:18:55 +0800 (WST) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:18:54 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" cc: danlaw@rust.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binaries in Usenet (was: News...) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970417221535.00ba8d44@mixcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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