On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 04:13:30PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 12:28:35PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:37:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > That bandwidth limit is not on your side of the isp, its the bandwidth > > > from the main trunk lines to the isp. NNTP is a huge bandwidth hog > > > regardless of how much of it your isp accepts for spooling on local disk > > > to serve you. > > > > > > > This is not the case. > > Yes it is.
No, it's not. "NNTP is a huge bandwidth hog regardless of how much of it your ISP accepts for spooling on local disk to serve you." Your irrelevant text storm is *entirely* about the case when the ISP tries to accept and propagate binary froups. Which you then go on to acknowledge: > full newsfeed hit 1TB/day in the early 2000s, and most of the ISPs who were ... > server. At this point I think a full newsfeed is pushing toward 50TB/day. ... > In theory you can still use an NNTP client (vs a server) to follow a limited > number of text-only groups fairly efficiently. In practice there's just not That theory is practice. I have about five "upstream" NNTP servers feeding me the groups I want; none of them do binary groups at all. I pay one of them (ten Euros a year). -dsr-
