On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > > seems to be loads of people doing a lot of posting and reading, where else > > would the volume of that traffic come from? > > I guess experiences differ from different organisations, when I discovered > that server-server traffic was at least 10x more than people actually read > (server-client) I didn't feel like trying to get my (then) employer > continue running the NNTP server. > > My feeling today (or rather, 3-5 years ago) is that NNTP is used instead > of bittorrent and other PtP protocols to move copyrighted material, and > I'd say that it probably makes more sense for some to let their users > invest in that drivespace than to have themselves run an NNTP server and > spend operational resources on keeping it running well. > > I've also heard people complaining about a few NNTP users causing a lot of > helpdesk tickets in respect to "single message missing" because they > cannot download that 4.7 gig ISO correctly because a message got lost > somewhere in the middle.
I came to much the same conclusion several years ago, when we finally decommissioned our NNTP Servers and out-sourced the service to an outside company. Running an NNTP server was a full-time job, and the 500 or so people that used it didn't generate enough revenue for us to continue managing it inside. -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST