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In article <rone.9p5lqb$dmg$1@ennui.org>, ^#*&$@ennui.org says...
> In article <MPG.161d148ebb4f539b989a2a@nntp.best.com>,
> Milton Brewster   <scribble@best.com> wrote:
> >If I subscribe to SuperNews and receive 90% +\- of all daily 
> >Usenet messages, I *still* won't be able to carry on 
> >conversations with other Usenet users who connect to Usenet via 
> >ISPs that carry 50% +/- of the daily message load. Those other 
> >people will miss too many of my posts and/or replies to be able 
> >to carry on a conversation with me via Usenet -- or even know 
> >that I've posted in the first place. 
> 
> That's patently ludicrous.  Daily message load has nothing to do with
> how much of a newsgroup they receive.  You seem to misunderstand how
> propagation works on Usenet; sites do not carry a percentage of all
> daily Usenet messages, but rather carry newsgroups, and accept
> articles for those newsgroups as they are fed by their peers.
> 
> rone

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Thank you very much for your polite reply. I suspect, however; 
that you have fastened on a quibble and let my real point sail 
right over your head. You *did* get my real point, didn't you? I 
can't tell, because you didn't respond to it. 

I am not a technical expert that you (and others here) seem to 
be, but I do understand the basics of how Usenet works. 

I suspect you are aware that some ISPs arrange to carry more than 
one feed in order to retrieve more messages, and that they often 
trade for those feeds. That means the extra feeds cost nothing. 

Perhaps Best/Verio should look into that arrangement. Perhaps 
they should actually break down and subscribe to a commercial 
service that does provide a high message load as part of its 
terms of service, to commercial accounts. Perhaps you should take 
a happy pill. I can dream, can't I?

milt b