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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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