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Re: usenet (was: DCAnet (was: Re: [PLUG] Comcast Crackdown)
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, jaw+plug@tcp4me.com wrote:
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> | Jeremy Nixon and some of the other very Big New Sites have said that users
> | (which none of the local ISPs have boatloads of on broadband) take up multiples
> | of bandwidth compared to feeds, if I'm remembering the discussions correctly.
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> a typical news-server should[1] have more bandwidth used by end-users reading
> news than the total inbound feed; but this will generally be "local" traffic,
> and not across expensive transit links.
Most of the people I read or exchange mail with are either edu* sites or NSPs. NSPs are selling bandwidth, basically, coming and going.
Almost none of my users are local to Netaxs. More than one of them is
connecting to me through a broadband connection. More than one of them uses
nntp caching of some sort or another. Thinking about it, a minority of my
users may be using dial-up. I know of three for sure -- one in New Zealand,
one in Nevada, one in California. I know more who have broadband connectivity.
>
> [1] those that count beans would say that if it wasn't more, one should
> be outsourcing news.
Once serious news users start using the non-ISP news sites, then there's more
reason to follow those users and just outsource.
I suspect indy accounts make for slim profit margins, but they do get the
serious users off the ISP news sites, which is probably the plan.
--
Rebecca Ore
http://www.ogoense.net
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