Subject: Re: news server
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 21:46:34 AKST
"Jeremy Hodder" <asjdh26@yahoo.com> wrote:
> tatus: O
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> Have any of you set up a news server? I'm think of try to but i'm haveing trubble finding a starting point.
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> jeremy
> " I was the kid next door's imaginary
I quote:
"You should be aware that Usenet traffic loads are extremely sensitive to
a number of seemingly inconsequential factors. To mention just two of many:
(1) The presence or absence of individual groups (and by absence, I mean
"poisoning an unwanted group" e.g., dropping any article posted to that
group, *AND* any article that's been *crossposted to* that group). For
example, consider the top 20 groups from
http://www.newsadmin.com/top100bytes.htm (commas added for readability):
!Binary Newsgroups Bytes % Total
! 1 alt.chello.binaries 13,757,677,778 4.538
! 2 alt.binaries.vcd 10,087,744,846 3.327
! 3 alt.binaries.vcd.repost 10,068,663,162 3.321
! 4 alt.binaries.multimedia 9,901,822,387 3.266
! 5 alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 9,159,994,565 3.021
! 6 alt.binaries.cd.image 7,865,347,722 2.594
! 7 alt.binaries.erotica.vcd 7,080,622,563 2.336
! 8 alt.binaries.cd.image.playstation 5,381,405,545 1.775
! 9 alt.binaries.movies.divx 5,004,619,468 1.651
!10 alt.binaries.music.shn 4,935,170,128 1.628
!11 alt.binaries.movies.divx.french 4,919,381,694 1.623
!12 alt.binaries.anime 4,672,847,011 1.541
!13 alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd 4,448,118,991 1.467
!14 alt.binaries.old.games 4,410,750,072 1.455
!15 alt.binaries.multimedia.cartoons 3,898,196,934 1.286
!16 alt.binaries.images 3,768,957,616 1.243
!17 alt.binaries.mpeg.video.music 3,711,531,880 1.224
!18 alt.binaries.movies 3,547,393,708 1.170
!19 alt.binaries.cd.image.games 3,219,286,966 1.062
!20 alt.binaries.movies.divx.german 3,194,581,083 1.054
When carriage of a single group can contribute nearly 14GB worth of traffic
to a feed, obviously you should pay attention to what you're carrying. You
can say, "We carry and feed everything" if you like, but remember the fact
that the presence or absence of a -single- group (out of tens or hundreds
of thousands, depending on what you consider to be a valid newsgroup) can
change your feed traffic by 14GB (nearly 5%) a day."
You'd be heading into a learning experience to say the least.
Head to google.com and lookup the issue.
/Dee
-- W.D.McKinney (Dee) (907)349-4308 (Office) (907)349-2226 (Fax) http://3519098920
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