In article <54f32f1a.9090...@meetinghouse.net> you write: >Scott, > >Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between >servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running >locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment?
There's always a lot more stuff from other people than from you. Unless you expect every server to connect directly to every other server, you're going to end up with a small set of well connected servers that feed stub servers and send way more than they receive, and the stubs that receive way more than they send. I have run usenet servers pretty much continuously for over 20 years, and Usenet has always been like that. R's, John