Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2018 07:24:18 zaxonxp wrote: >> [...] >> NNTP was a way to go. Sadly not many portals supports it promoting >> only web access or mail list. Personally I do not like to polute my >> mailbox with a tons of e-mails and clean them up later on. NNTP client >> does this when I want it and you can configure it the way you want it. >> What else would you need for a news groups? >> >> Regards, >> Piotr > > And NNTP will never get there. Why? Its the most bandwidth hungry thing > in an ISP's closet of tools. To fully support it needs 2000 times the > bandwidth of an email server.
Maybe eternal-september is simply an extremely quiet news server, but the stats page shows they've been transferring at just under 100kbps (max) over the past month (avg 55kbps). -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
