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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
On 3 Feb 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: > Pull it, rather than pushing it. nntpcache is a localized example of how [...] Proposed by someone every couple of months for the last 10 years (at least). The current software (diablo especially) even supports it to a good extent, however nobody is doing it for some reason. > Pushing netnews, with or without multicast, with or without binaries, is > just unthinkable at today's volumes but we do it anyway. The effect of > increased volume have decreased the utilization of netnews as a media > amongst my various friends. Totally wrong on the non-binaries feed bit. A non-binaries feed is around 1-2GB per day or 100-200kb/s which is below the noise level for anyone on this list. Even on the semi 3rd world wages I make I could afford a non-binaries feed to my house and archive it for less than I spend on lunches. Binaries on the other hand is completely different, most people can't afford it and we are moving to a centralized model with the supernews types companies being the only ones with full feeds out there. I am really surprised that the RIAA and similar groups havn't "gone after" usenet to any great degree yet. I can't really see how binaries newsgroups different in any great extent (from the copyright angle) from your random p2p network. Once a few lawsuits are issued (does the ISC count as a distributor?) against the dozen or so top news providers things could be quite interesting. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: [email protected] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [email protected] ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz
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