haha! I wouldn't be surprised if that's all this guy cares about either.
I told him to check out getting a subscription to supernews for $6. He still makes out better keeping us and paying supernews than sticking with cable and getting newsgroups for free.
Thanks everyone for your helpful advise!
Sevak
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:03, Kevin Summers wrote:
Not to mention the main reason we stopped handling newsgroups
at all. 90% of the traffic that we were seeing was all porn.
We already don't allow porn web sites to be hosted here, and
when we saw those statistics, and took a look at some of the
stuff people were looking at, we decided the time, effort,
equipment, and money were just not worth it.
Yes, I know there are useful newsgroups out there. Problem is
nobody was using those... :-)
Kevin Summers
KISTech Internet Services Inc.
www.kistech.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kevin Proctor
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [smartBridges] OFF-TOPIC newsgroups
Newsgroups are K3WL! Have him sign up with Supernews or one of the other subscription servers. You do not have the time or storage space to handle the 400+ gigs of daily newsgroup postings and still have any kind of message retention.
Newsgroups operate kind of like this list, except the messages are stored on a server that users can access. NNTP is the protocol used and it requires a reader or client like Outlook Express or Agent to access and read the messages.
The big ISP’s have newsgroup servers, but a small ISP just can’t keep up with 40,000+ newsgroups, the related storage space and the bandwidth required to handle it all.
Kevin B. Proctor
Customer Service
Internet and International Orders
Electro Comm Distributing Inc
5015 Paris St
Denver CO 90239
USA
Phone: +1-303-371-8182
800-525-0173
FAX: +1-303-371-8158
800-423-8018
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sevak Avakians
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [smartBridges] OFF-TOPIC newsgroups
Sorry for posting this here, but I thought you people would know more about it.
A customer of mine keeps asking for a newsgroup server name. I've never used newsgroups nor know how they work, but apparently his last ISP had a newsgroup server he used. I've found some names of free newsgroup servers on a google search, but don't know what to tell him so that he can use it.
Anyone know about this?
Thanks,
Sevak
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