Oh, and aren't newsgroups more or less peer-to-peer messaging using a more efficient model than regular P2P? It's like P2P with a local ISP cache.
-Cameron On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I assumed that USENet would make a stronger showing > > I might actually expect it to be a smaller part of the traffic than > 5.6%. Each news farm only has to download each message or message > part once. It might also send out messages to other peers, but all > the end user downloading is local network bandwidth. I would expect > the real cost to the ISP being in scaling out to handle all the disc > I/O involved in feeding that data out to it's customers at the > collective rate of their connection speeds. > > -Cameron > -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262612 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
