Re: S-l-o-w-e-r this time

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From: Larry Kessler
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 00:00

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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:51:50 GMT, "RSJ" <rfst.john@mci2000.com> wrote:

>More good input.
>Keep it coming.
>
>Thanks, Larry.

In all fairness I have to say that Usenet servers are the hardest and
most expensive part of an ISP to set up and maintain.  A full newsfeed
is 5-10 gigabytes a day now, if I'm not mistaken, and a news server
might need five to ten times that much storage to maintain a
substantial spool.

>>Larry Kessler wrote in message >
>>>I can vouch for this.  I tried Brokersys.com for a while because J-Mag
>>>is a longtime friend.  They did fine in most respects except for news,
>>>which comes from an outside news server.  I wasn't too happy with
>>>their (the outside news server's) performance so I switched again.

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From: lmk@wt.net (Larry Kessler)
Subject: Re: S-l-o-w-e-r this time
Date: 1998/04/18
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