Re: Rating ISP news servers

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From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 03:03

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Peter Renzland <retep@xinalp.moc> wrote:
> Those who were at Unix Unanimous last month remember --
> I was talking about a metric to compare the quality of
> a news server, from a user's perspective.

> I now have a program to calculate the metric.  It's number,
> typically from about 50 to about 100.

> I have measured some Toronto ISP's, and their metrics range
> from 2 to 118.  Would you like to know how yours compares?

Can you point that puppy at news.vex.net please?

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From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@vex.net>
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Subject: Re: Rating ISP news servers
Date: 23 Aug 2000 03:03:12 GMT
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