On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:27:29PM -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
providing good news service requires tons of disk space and loads of network bandwidth,
I'm getting the impression that providing good news service doesn't need that, only providing good warez service does (and this includes all copyrighted pictures/video/audio media binaries). If folks would end abusing NNTP for file distribution via flooding, the matter would quickly be resolved. Am i naive?
The last time I looked at newsfeed stats, a full feed with all the alt.binaries crap was running around 350 GB/day - I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's substantially higher now.
And prolly 349GB/day being exactly the crap you mention. Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0