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Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

From	Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: mailing list vs "the futur"
Date	2018-08-10 15:20 +0200
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Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 10 August 2018 07:24:18 zaxonxp wrote:
>> [...]
>> NNTP was a way to go. Sadly not many portals supports it promoting
>> only web access or mail list. Personally I do not like to polute my
>> mailbox with a tons of e-mails and clean them up later on. NNTP client
>> does this when I want it and you can configure it the way you want it.
>> What else would you need for a news groups?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Piotr
>
> And NNTP will never get there. Why? Its the most bandwidth hungry thing 
> in an ISP's closet of tools. To fully support it needs 2000 times the 
> bandwidth of an email server.  

Maybe eternal-september is simply an extremely quiet news server, but
the stats page shows they've been transferring at just under 100kbps
(max) over the past month (avg 55kbps).


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Re: mailing list vs "the futur" zaxonxp <zaxonxp45@gmail.com> - 2018-08-10 13:50 +0200
  Re: mailing list vs "the futur" Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-10 14:10 +0200
    Re: mailing list vs "the futur" Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-10 15:20 +0200

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