> > Which means that the news server needs to be fixed, not the users. > > Program inefficiencies and/or hardware shortcomings are rarely a good > > reason for enforcing restrictions on users. After all, in some sense, > > isn't the purpose of the system to serve its users? > > The "news servers" in questions include just about every INN server > at every small-mid sized ISP in North America along with most .edu > machines. > > Most sites don't have unlimited budgets and Usenet is a big $$ > eater which, if given the resouces it demands, will expand to fill > them and then demand more. > > AB The problem here is essentially a physical one. Drive heads move too slowly, and ram is too expensive (although I know some bigger news sites that keep their entire history file in 4Gb of ram disk - yes, don't turn off :) Cheers, Julian.
