Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

[James Fidell <james () cloud9 co uk>]

Quoting Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels () cistron nl):

> Yes, but who's going to set up the home for movies/pictures/warez/mp3
> groups? Nobody, ofcourse, since most stuff is not very legal.
> But those groups are 98% of todays traffic.
>
> So if you *do* manage to switch everybody over to that new system
> and turn off the old usenet, the new system isn't needed anymore.

Sounds like a plan without any drawbacks to me :)

James