On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:54:09PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Assuming I wanted to go about setting up an NNTP server, how would I go
about getting and maintaining the feeds? There's no central authority
AFAIK, but does anyone have any knowledge as to relative price and/or
[I'm informed my post violated the AUP. I submit a modified revision]
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
People still use usenet? ;)
yes.
Seriously though, you'd have to be an awfully large organization for
outsourced news to not be a slam dunk financially.
Does anyone know of one?
Hell, has anyone even considered starting one?
For that matter, would anyone be interested or willing to pay for their
services if someone did or is bandwidth so cheap that it's just not
needed anymore?
...rdc
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Rick Chavez wrote:
Does anyone know of one?
No but would probably be interested as a customer.
Hell, has anyone even considered starting one?
Possibly.
For that matter, would anyone be interested or willing to pay for their
services if someone did or is bandwidth so
Does anyone know of one?
No.
Hell, has anyone even considered starting one?
No, and I doubt anybody seriously has. As a former employee, I can vouch
that the transponder costs were prohibitive to any start-up. It's
possible that a large established provider might be able to absorb the
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Rick Chavez wrote:
Does anyone know of one?
Hell, has anyone even considered starting one?
For that matter, would anyone be interested or willing to pay for their
services if someone did or is bandwidth so cheap that it's just not
needed anymore?
Hadn't it gotten to
Hadn't it gotten to the point shortly before Cidera folded that the
satellite bandwidth was so insufficient for a full feed that it was of
questionable value?...or was it still fine if you wanted a usenet feed
with no binaries?
Probably. Yes.
IIRC, a full feed of usenet (3 years ago) was
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Rick Chavez wrote:
Does anyone know of one?
Hell, has anyone even considered starting one?
For that matter, would anyone be interested or willing to pay for their
services if someone did or is bandwidth so cheap that it's just not
needed anymore?
People still use
jason == jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jason Probably. Yes.
jason IIRC, a full feed of usenet (3 years ago) was approx 250GB+
jason per day. The overwhelming majority of that was multi-part
jason binaries. Cut them out and you should have plenty of room
jason across the transponder,
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:15:47PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
Hadn't it gotten to the point shortly before Cidera folded that the
satellite bandwidth was so insufficient for a full feed that it was of
questionable value?...or was it still fine if you wanted a usenet feed
with no binaries?
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, J.A. Terranson wrote:
remember exactly). The point is that the Usenet feed ended up throttled
at ~25mbps(?). If you don't care about binaries of various descriptions,
you can still stuff a full feed through a very small pipe (a pair of T1s
should be more than
- Original Message -
From: Jon Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: SkyCache/Cidera replacement?
Now...if there were napster for pr0n, then abpe would be unnecessary :)
there is: it's
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 20 14:37:38 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:31:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: SkyCache/Cidera replacement?
Hadn't it gotten to the point shortly before Cidera folded that the
satellite bandwidth was so insufficient for a full feed that it was of
questionable
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Majdi Abbas wrote:
I'll bite, and reveal my ultimate cluelessness here.
Assuming I wanted to go about setting up an NNTP server, how would I go
about getting and maintaining the feeds? There's no central authority
AFAIK, but does anyone have any knowledge as to relative
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
People still use usenet? ;)
yes.
Seriously though, you'd have to be an awfully large organization for
outsourced news to not be a slam dunk financially.
Perhaps, but Panix runs their own; one of the many reasons
they get my
On Sep 20, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Majdi Abbas wrote:
I'll bite, and reveal my ultimate cluelessness here.
Assuming I wanted to go about setting up an NNTP server, how would I
go about getting and maintaining the feeds? There's no central
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Majdi Abbas wrote:
Jon, I recall some reported problems along those lines. That
even without binaries, they were running out of overhead. Given that
USENET volume tends to grow, I'm betting that it would require a lot
more capacity now.
We were customers up
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004, Matthew Crocker wrote:
First, you go out and buy the biggest server you can find, buy more
drive space than you can afford. Then, buy more. You *may* be able
to get a feed from your upstream service providers. You'll want to
have at least 2 feeds and you should
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