| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:10:34 +0100 |
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:07:22PM -0500, Andrew White wrote: > We do have a substantial news server with binaries. > The recycle time on articles varies by volume; > obviously binary groups have their posts cycled more > often as the groups take up so much space. Heh. You'd get a lot of whinging if you axed the binaries, though I think they should just go away the world over. (Remember when newsfeeds took a couple of seconds to propagate articles internationally? Well, neither do I. I'm too young. But I know INN's capable of it, having used it on an international, internal basis.) > I just ran some stats, and the top two newsgroups by > articles read are probably no surprise to any NNTP > server admin: > > #1 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur > #2 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female > > lol! Your whingers would get mighty non-specific when you asked them *why* they wanted the binaries to stay around, of course. Using a transparent web proxy would probably also produce some fun rankings... ;^> It'd be fun to hear the results of floating such a proposition. (Take a look at how much it'd save you in bandwidth costs. No, really, go find out. I have an idea of where it'd be, since I know how much it saved swarthmore.edu, but your numbers would probably several orders of magnitude greater.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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