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From: Jim on 10 Apr 2010 13:22 James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > > Having said that, I wonder what the actual figures are. I've got a > > recent email from news.individual.net so I might try asking them and see > > if I get a reply. > > Certainly do that. Textually, I can't imagine it being over say 10 GB a > month for everything they have to offer. Would be interesting. Email sent. I'll let everyone know if I get a reply. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Jim on 10 Apr 2010 13:24 Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > It adds up. It adds up a *lot*. > > Pah, peanuts compared to webforums. Allocating 6TB of SAN to web fora > *for a single site* is far from uncommon. Wow. Isn't the retention period on web fora much longer though? Usenet tends towards the week/month period. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Chris Ridd on 10 Apr 2010 14:13 On 2010-04-10 18:22:26 +0100, Jim said: > James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > >>> Having said that, I wonder what the actual figures are. I've got a >>> recent email from news.individual.net so I might try asking them and see >>> if I get a reply. >> >> Certainly do that. Textually, I can't imagine it being over say 10 GB a >> month for everything they have to offer. Would be interesting. > > Email sent. I'll let everyone know if I get a reply. I'd guess 10GB for a week's worth of (text) stuff, perhaps a few days less. -- Chris
From: Chris Ridd on 10 Apr 2010 14:14 On 2010-04-10 17:51:02 +0100, James Jolley said: > On 2010-04-10 17:24:31 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > >> On 2010-04-10 17:14:23 +0100, James Jolley said: >> >>> On 2010-04-10 17:11:11 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: >>> >>>> News servers use a large amount of disk space. Actually they might not >>>> compared with modern disk sizes, but it is significantly more than zero. >>> >>> Again, fair. You keep hearing disk space is cheap so bloody often you >>> start to equate it to any disk activity at all. Shouldn't I know, but >>> there we go. >> >> When I last (and first) ran a news server, I think it used a "massive" >> 2GB disk for its spool. Those were the days! > > I'm curious to know what the average usage would be now on modern > computers with Binary type servers. It would be a frightening amount. -- Chris
From: eastender on 10 Apr 2010 14:48
In article <D.Gray-3DE255.16355310042010(a)nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk>, Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > But I find it amazing that anyone would question the posting > here of *big* news that the Usenet News feed is being turned off to > most/all UK Universities (including cam.ac.uk). Indeed. Thanks for posting this. I imagine also many people won't know the historical context of Unix in the early 1980s and networking, and the community of systems it's spawned, including of course, OS X. E. |