News Server

[cswiger at mac.com (Chuck Swiger)]

Adam Maloney wrote:
> More like 50Mbit+, according to stats from someone I know of in the
> top-50.
> 
> Before Cidera went under they were feeding us around 30MBit and that was
> capped, and somewhat filtered.

I can believe it, but my opinions with regard to Usenet news are a little 
dated.  :-)  I'm interested in carrying newsgroups that have people talking to 
other people, not groups full of multi-part binaries of music, warez, 
robo-posted job offers, and all of that noise.

If you refuse (or discard) articles larger than 40K or so, and poison 
*.binaries, what's left is relatively high in human-produced content and each 
such feed consumes only 200 Kbs or so.

-- 
-Chuck