Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

[Robert Boyle <robert () tellurian com>]

At 04:06 PM 2/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the same time the end-users (whose fees go towards paying for the
> > hardware, presumably) say "we don't want binaries anymore."
>
> It would be interesting to survey the customers and see:
>
> A) how many would care if we didn't provide usenet
> B) how many would care if we didn't carry any binaries
> C) how many have never heard of usenet
>
> I suspect A and B would be small, and C large.

We are a medium sized ISP with about 15,000 customers using connection 
types from dialup to T3. We have found that at any given time, we have 5-10 
users connected to our news server per hour. Assuming the average session 
is at least 1-2 hours for most binaries users and the same people probably 
use news each day... .0002% of our users actually use usenet. We have 
outsourced news for about 2 years to Giganews and we have found it to be a 
far more effective solution for our needs anyway.

-Robert


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