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Re[2]: Using linux as an ISP
Evgeny Stambulchik writes:
> "Marc A. Volovic" <marc@leonardo.ls.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
> > > btw, will you pay 15$ a month for unlimited usage, line being 64k ?(but a
> > > *lot* less users from big time ISPs)?
> >
> > I would, assuming I can use my own domain :-). Note, please, that 64k is
> > _NOT_ enough to have a newsfeed of any size - news traffic is about 400MB
> > per day, these days.
>
> That's for static news feed; but you can use dynamic sucking feed, i.e. getting
> news items that users _read_. Given you reject *.binaries.* & 1-2 weeks
> expiration time set, you can easily end up with ~10MB/day and 200MB total disk
> usage for spool. Take a look at <http://world.std.com/~netwin>
Alternatively, you can avoid news completely by just telling your
users to use www.dejagnu.com for news.
--
Dr. Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il
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