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Re: DCAnet (was: Re: [PLUG] Comcast Crackdown)
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 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.
I think my text-only server ranks higher world-wide in transit (anthologeek
alternative top 1000 site) than a lot of ISP sites that provide binaries.
Running your own server and peering with text-only sites gets a remarkably
higher performance even on old software than using a bunny server if all you
want is text.
(I have dca.net for dsl, colo my news server with netaxs, and peer with
Supernews, some local news sites, and a very well-connected edu site).
Supernews is now offering text-only accounts.
>
> (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
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Rebecca Ore
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