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Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed
From: Adam Maloney <adamm () sihope com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:55:18 -0500 (CDT)
Only complaints I had about their service before I left were they wouldn't offer a filter before transmission service. It would have cut down on the transmit load and saved some time for my news server if they were filtering before it got to me.
I think they couldn't do this because it was a broadcast transmission, and not point to point. Any pre-transmission filter would be applied to everyone.
It was extremely nice to take the NNTP load off of our upstream links when we first set it up. As I understood it, they were not doing well on binary feeds towards the end there though.
I think they ended up filtering posts over a certain length over a year ago (?). They were approaching 45-50MBit/s, and when they implemented that filter they cut it back to about 30. Not exactly a full feed, but how much porn do you actually need? :) We ended up supplementing their feed with a text-only feed from one of our upstreams, just to make sure we weren't missing anything that someone might actually care about (i.e. non-porn). Adam Maloney Systems Administrator Sihope Communications
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