Howdy,
A full news feed is about 28GB, 30,000 news groups, 700,000
articles, all per day. About 80% of that is binaries, 65% of which are in
alt.bin*, with alt.warez* taking up most of the rest of that binary
bandwidth.
We (NEGIA, a mid sized ISP) are testing a super-fast news server we got
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
56k won't cut it. Last time I checked, 128k would, but I wouldn't be
surprised if it's gone past that now.
I don't think you have. A full newsfeed is up over 10GB per day. It
requires almost a
Linux does nfs serving with busted file locking. You can easily get
messages inserted inside eachother in inboxes. However, if you have an
nfs server based on Sun or Network Appliance, then you are ok.
We have a Sun based NFS server exporting to several POP servers and a
couple of SMTP
Pros: cheaper, no per user license, more reliable, more secure
Cons: exchange is a messaging server, not just email--you lose a lot of
functionality unless you also employ a program like ICQ, plus
perhaps a local news server, etc.
-Sincerely,
Patrick
On Tue, 7 Apr
