Re: DCAnet (was: Re: [PLUG] Comcast Crackdown)

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

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.

If people are going to leech all day (and some always will), far better 
for them to leech from the local NNTP server, rather than sucking up 
your upstream bandwidth.

--
Will Dyson
"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Keep that in 
mind at all times." -Bill Hicks


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