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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NNTP feed.
Thus spake "Greg Boehnlein" <[email protected]> That seems to be consensus among ISPs: there just aren't enough users today to justify the cost of hiring a full-time news admin, deal with abuse and customer service issues, and pay for the storage space for 8TB/day of content.I came to much the same conclusion several years ago, when we finally decommissioned our NNTP Servers and out-sourced the service to an outside company. Running an NNTP server was a full-time job, and the 500 or so people that used it didn't generate enough revenue for us to continue managing it inside. OTOH, it might be doable if you didn't carry the alt.binaries groups; those account for well over 90% of the bytes on usenet today, and virtually all of the complainers. If your customers want the binaries groups, you can easily point them to a dozen different commercial news providers that do carry them -- and have the economy of scale needed to turn a profit. Another option is to run a caching-only news server, provided you can find a willing upstream. This will save you most of the bandwidth if you don't have many users, though again excluding binaries may be needed to cut down on the whiney pirates. (Besides, all the binaries on usenet are available via BitTorrent somewhere anyways; NNTP does not make a good piracy protocol from a technical perspective, only from an anonymity one) S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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