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richard
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can grex offer usenet again?
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May 13 21:45 UTC 1999 |
Once upon a time, a long time ago now, grex offered usenet. Today, for no
particular reason, I ran !tin again, and got "usenet is down-- may be back
in several months" That message is obviously several "years" old now.
Why not consider bringing back usenet? a usenet interface on the web page
(like dejanews has) would be a feature very attractive to potential
users/members. I remember when grex had usenet (tin or trn) it was
unbearably slow, but grex itself is so much faster now that a good usenet
interface would probably work well. grex could even have its own usenet
conf, alt.grex or something.
Is it feasible for grex to offer usenet again?
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scg
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response 1 of 70:
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May 13 22:03 UTC 1999 |
Usenet used to be relatively tiny -- Grex got its news feed over a 2400 bps
modem that wasn't connected most of the time. That's changed drastically.
At work (at one of SE Michigan's larger ISPs), we shut down our news server
a few months ago and outsourced it, since it didn't make economic sense to
run our own news server anymore. When we shut the news server down, our full
news feed was taking the equivalent of something approaching two full T1s,
24 hours per day.
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pfv
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response 2 of 70:
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May 13 22:11 UTC 1999 |
Richard is apparently unaware of the number of times this topic
and that question have been asked, let alone answered.
Bad enough mailing-lists exist, Uselessnet went to hell about the
time everyone and his cousin could afford a comp.
Personally, I'd like to see that message replaced with something
less misleading.
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dang
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response 3 of 70:
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May 14 01:20 UTC 1999 |
Asside from that, a full usenet feed would take about as much disk as we
are currently useing for our whole system.
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rcurl
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response 4 of 70:
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May 14 04:54 UTC 1999 |
Usenet is accessible on the web through any search site.
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