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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
In article <[email protected]>, Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: >Pull it, rather than pushing it. nntpcache is a localized example of how >to only transfer the groups and articles that somebody on your end of a >link actually wants to read. A more systemic example ought to be developed >whereby every group has a well-mirrored home and an nntpcache hierarchy >similar to what Squid proposed for web data, and every news reader pulls >only what it needs. Posting an article should mean getting it into the >well-mirrored home of that group. Removing spam should mean deleting >articles from the well-mirrored home of that group. Yes, but who's going to set up the home for movies/pictures/warez/mp3 groups? Nobody, ofcourse, since most stuff is not very legal. But those groups are 98% of todays traffic. So if you *do* manage to switch everybody over to that new system and turn off the old usenet, the new system isn't needed anymore. Mike. -- Computers are useless, they only give answers. --Pablo Picasso
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