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Re[2]: Using linux as an ISP



"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>

Evgeny



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