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:In article <3m6tqk$2kn@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>,
:Michael Bender <bender@oobleck.eng.sun.com> wrote:
:>sle@sensemedia.net (sle@sensemedia.net) wrote:
:>: consider again...
:>
:>: the problem with usenet is not the store and forward aspect of the 
:>: tech...it is that EVERYTHING gets stored and EVERTHING gets forwarded 
:>: everywhere or you dont get it.
:...
:>
:>Why are you required to carry everything? You only need carry the groups
:>that you want to have available on your system. If you also feed news to
:>someone downstream from you, you would likely also carry the groups that
:>that site wants to see as well. But you don't HAVE to carry every group.
:>Where did you get this idea from?
:>
:>: usenet is a MAJOR waste of bandwidth and is nonscalable in its present 
:>: incarnation.
:>
:>What leads you to say this?
:>
:>mike

    USENET is most definitely NOT a major waste of bandwidth.  Our usenet 
    feeds takes 250MB a day or so.  This is *nothing* compared to the 
    4 GB / day that gets dished out of our WWW server, most of that
    repetitive.

    If a person posts something to alt.sex.whatever in a newsgroup, it
    takes maybe a couple hundred K in network bandwidth on a one-time
    basis.  If someone makes the same material available via WWW, it takes 
    a couple hundred MEGs a *day*, for weeks on end if I don't catch it.

    Of course, I am not advocating that everyone post their WWW page to a 
    newsgroup whenever it changes... there is a definite place for the WWW.

    Big mailing lists are almost as bad, where each message must be 
    transmitted to each recipient.  A huge waste of bandwidth and a huge
    wate of overhead that digests only partially fix.

    USENET NEWS scales much more favorably then anything else when it comes
    to mass distribution.  Thus, there is also a definite place for 
    the USENET in the scheme of things.

						-Matt

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    Matthew Dillon   VP Enginering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
		    <dillon@best.com>, <dillon@apollo.west.oic.com>
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