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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:20:05 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: The future of USENET?
Message-ID:  <20130327212004.GA1571@tiny.Sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <51535897.3000901@gmail.com>
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El día Wednesday, March 27, 2013 a las 03:37:43PM -0500, Joshua Isom escribió:

> The last ISP I knew had usenet complained about the bandwidth and 
> storage required.  They had a dedicated satellite instead of using their 
> backbone, and only cached a couple days.  All the porn and warez has the 
> side affect of wiping out the cost benefit.

I'm using since some years http://www.aioe.org/ which has no binary
groups (i.e. no porn or warez) and a cache of 25 days. Just works.

	matthias
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