Path: newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!21adc001!not-for-mail Newsgroups: earthlink.support.usenet Subject: Re: news.text.earthlink.net - news.binaries.earthlink.net From: Ed References: Organization: none Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/05.08.12 Lines: 48 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:21:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.13.135.209 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1068499304 208.13.135.209 (Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:21:44 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:21:44 PST Xref: news.earthlink.net earthlink.support.usenet:10237 X-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:22:14 PST (newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net) Louis wrote in news:hhbrrk1reu.fsf@ossh.com: > I've been having a problem with news.west.earthlink.net, but switching > over to news.east.earthlink.net seems to work just fine, so I have no > problem with a 3 second edit to my ~/.authinfo file. > > Instead of having: > > * news.west.earthlink.net > * news.east.earthlink.net > > news.*.earthlink.net should be structured in the following manner: > > * news.text.earthlink.net - (TEXT ONLY - DL NOT > THROTTLE) * news.binaries.earthlink.net - (TEXT & BINARIES - > DL THROTTLED) > > since I personally download "0MB" of binaries, nor am I subscribed to > any binaries newsgroups. If you throttle the download speed of > news.binaries.earthlink.net in a way where either a CABLE / DSL > subscriber could only download 05GB-10GB a month *regardless* of what > mail account they used, you could then save yourself the trouble of > inconsiderates who play around with making a new email alias to have > another 5GB's worth of DL's, while us TEXT ONLY users suffer from > their lack of courtesy towards the rest of EL / Mindspring > subscribers. > > EL could then save on storage costs of mirroring binaries on the east > / west coast, and could concentrate on spending less money on a text > only server's storage space & outgoing bandwidth, and either provide > the same storage space or even more for a multipurpose binaries / text > server as you wouldnt have to mirror the same information onto the > text only server. > First off, if you only need text, use one of the free servers. Second, have you compared the cost of the saved storage with with the cost of moving data coast to coast for users? Third, can you explain how the text users are being affected by the binary users? Rememeber that the text articles are stored on different spools then the binary articles. -- Ed http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html