-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ~ Richard Stevenson wrote: | I'm not overly happy, but I certainly understand their point of view. | The overheads are probably huge - certainly when I was in a position to | know, the news server was one big-ass box, probably the biggest single box | in the entire environment. The monthly support costs (power, cooling, | rent of rack space, support agreements) alone would be fairly crippling, The crippling thing about Xtra in general is the laughter experienced by ~ people with more than 5 brain cells, who have to put up with crippling back haul issues, crippled in their realisation that in order to experience the net the way they used to, when NNTP was the shiz, pretty much means moving to somewhere like PNG, where the local ISP's (all 5 of them), don't give a rat's ass, if port 25 is open, NNTP is still fun to use and all about 6 thousand net users have only 6MB of bandwidth to share. Nice to see how progress gets us to where we are, in a stranglehold. | and noises were being made back then about the volume of incoming | international traffic required to feed the thing. I'm only mildly annoyed | about them cutting it off because I never get time to read Usenet any more | anyway. I barely get time to read the things I'm really interested in, | like this list. | | Side note: anyone ever had to find decent connectivity in the area | between Hamilton and Cambridge? It's nasty. Dexcel Has a pretty good Omni wireless system out Newstead way | | Cheers | | Richard | | _______________________________________________ | NZNOG mailing list | NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkRXQvMACgkQ5/N28r/rRl54LwCdFxpUODzPFTV2MMM5o61p3Toc c9cAn1NOeKG5rTGOLqB4j2oKGJpRRGBH =Sk9l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----