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curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
(Responding to the idea that news growth is out of hand)

> You can buy more disk.  You can move news to a larger machine.  You
> can buy faster modems.  You can can buy more phone lines.  It's
> easy to buy and run a machine that can handle a full news feed.  It's
> just a question of whether the cost is worth it to you.

You can buy, buy, buy.  You can throw money at the problem.  The rest of us
who are not at .mil sites can work out more efficient and better ways to
move the news along.  THAT doesn't cost ANYTHING and the net will be better
for these ideas.

> A lot of people (like us) are using T1 lines to move news.  Do you know
> how much of a T1 line is consumed by a single "typical" full news feed
> in 24 hours?  Less than 5 minutes worth.  It's no big deal.

Oh!  We should have thought of that!  All those small installations with 25
people and a part-time sysadmin should install T1 links!  That'll solve
their problems quickly and easily.  If the nail won't go in we'll just buy a
bigger hammer.  We'll just get a sledgehammer, that should do the trick.

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