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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed
> Only complaints I had about their service before I left were they > wouldn't offer a filter before transmission service. It would have cut > down on the transmit load and saved some time for my news server if they > were filtering before it got to me. I think they couldn't do this because it was a broadcast transmission, and not point to point. Any pre-transmission filter would be applied to everyone. > It was extremely nice to take the NNTP load off of our upstream links when > we first set it up. As I understood it, they were not doing well on binary > feeds towards the end there though. I think they ended up filtering posts over a certain length over a year ago (?). They were approaching 45-50MBit/s, and when they implemented that filter they cut it back to about 30. Not exactly a full feed, but how much porn do you actually need? :) We ended up supplementing their feed with a text-only feed from one of our upstreams, just to make sure we weren't missing anything that someone might actually care about (i.e. non-porn). Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications
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