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 sufficient.

IIRC, our transceiver's switch port hovered right around 28mbps. The trouble with a non-binaries feed is most of the ISP customers who know what usenet is want it for the binaries. Now...if there were napster for pr0n, then abpe would be unnecessary :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________