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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:36:53 -0400
Jon Lewis wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Joe Greco wrote:Those of us still doing work with USENET know that it isn't dead, far from it, but we're aware that there's a certain amount of illicit traffic.A certain amount? Even years and years ago, when I last ran a server, I'd wager porn and warez was statistically "all" of the traffic.It's kind of like the way that pr0n and w4rez dominate all the Internet, but this doesn't seem to faze Internet network operators.Perhaps because the pr0n and w4rez are just bits on the wire for most operators, not terabytes of disk space on servers we own.
Yeah.. but that's like saying video is all there is on the Internet. I don't know about the rest of you, but I exchange a LOT more email every day that the number of videos I watch, but... the bandwidth involved in all that email pretty trivial, even counting all the list traffic going through our list manager.
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Current thread:
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US, (continued)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Brett Watson (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Andrew D Kirch (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Rich Kulawiec (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Alex Ryu (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US K. Scott Bethke (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jay Ashworth (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US John Levine (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jon Lewis (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Miles Fidelman (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jimmy Hess (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US JC Dill (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US John R. Levine (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Michael Rathbun (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Landon Stewart (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jay Ashworth (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Rich Kulawiec (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Justin M. Streiner (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Miles Fidelman (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US JC Dill (Mar 30)