[Gllug] Is anyone else getting download rates near zero today?

[Anthony Newman]

Nix wrote:
>>Any word on the new Usenet News server?
> 
> 
> I hear that they're having major binary retention problems: the intent
> is to fix them by printing the feed onto wet tissue paper and retyping
> it all by hand using trained monkeys. With a sufficiently large monkey
> supply this should take perhaps two weeks for the 28Gb of the feed
> that is actually useful.
> 
> ;)
> 
>  -- N., cancelled his Demon account yesterday
> 


It is becoming increasingly difficult for providers without serious 
clout to swallow a full news feed; now in excess of 2TB a day with all 
the binary groups, and consequently a lot of ISPs offering News now are 
outsourcing to the likes of Giganews with their clearly crazy storage 
capacity. A bit of a shame, but there you go.


Ant
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