> I knew someone who ran a Usenet service in the heyday and they spent a lot of time working around hotspots and limitations in storage capacity and I/O through

> I knew someone who ran a Usenet service in the heyday and they spent a lot of time working around hotspots and limitations in storage capacity and I/O throughput. A large portion of the challenge is the alt.binaries.* tree. The Big 8 (comp.*, rec.*, etc) is probably relatively easier: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_8_(Usenet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_8_(Usenet) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup#Hierarchies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup#Hierarchies