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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Personal netnodes?
Message-ID: <390@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 11:58:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: moncol.390
Posted: Mon Jun 17 11:58:30 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Jun-85 05:13:35 EDT
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Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
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>From: toby@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Toby Harness)
>Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science
>Message-ID: <490@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
>
>You`re the sa for a Usenet site.  Someone asks you for a feed to his personal
>machine.  News is running what, something like 40 megabytes a week?  Even 
>a fraction of that is a lot of traffic.  So what do you do first?  You offer
>him/her/it a login on your machine to read news.  If you can`t give a login
>id to this person, then you probably shouldn`t give them a uucp connection.

Well, moncol is something of a well-connected leaf with somewhat limited
resources (at least for now). In our case, I might point such a person to
the people who do our feed. (Alternately, I might look into one of the
fixes to inews which sends articles from where they reside.)

Also, the 40 Mb figure seems a tad high. We devote approx. 10 Mb to news.
We receive a full news feed. Most articles are expired after one week, with
some high-volume groups (net.sources, net.flame, net.politics, etc.) being
expired after 3 days. We have only had problems 4 times in 7 months of
operation with one of those being because of a corrupted history file.

A personal netnews site would probably only want a small number of groups
and wouls expire them much faster. Also, the operator would probably resort
to printing out interesting articles or archiving them to floppy. I figure
3-5 meg would be more than adequate for such a site.


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