> I'm surprised a provider is charging per number of concurrent connects. > I'd have thought that they'd charge on a "number of IP addresses" or > "articles served" or "overall traffic Mb" basis. most commercial providers do charge this way. i've just been through this process here when we were looking to outsource news briefly as we dealt with a flakey news server. supernews, newsread and zippo all charge per maximum number of concurant readers. if you were doing this with nntpcache the main advantage i would see wouldn't be reduction of charge from the news provider but rather improved response times for your clients and reduced bandwidth costs because of caching. you can't have your cake and eat it too ;) adam. ps. hi alan. ------------------------ Internet Alaska ------------------------- 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand (v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, Alaska Systems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 ----------------- http://larry.earthlight.co.nz ------------------
