On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > 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 ;) Hmm, the savings could still be substantional. There are a lot of users at this site, but few seem to read news. According to innstats, about 50 to 60K articles are read a day. Very wasteful since the server receives 300 to 500K articles per day. > adam. > ------------------------ 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 ------------------ Tom
