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Back in 1998 my ISP dropped NNTP because it was pretty expensive to run, it required large, fast SCSI disks and ate quite a bit of bandwidth, constantly. At the
by actionfromafar 2y ago
Back in 1998 my ISP dropped NNTP because it was pretty expensive to run, it required large, fast SCSI disks and ate quite a bit of bandwidth, constantly. At the same time rather few customers used it,
so it was an easy decision for them to just decommission that server.
- immibis 2y agoThat must have been before the high-bandwidth binary side decoupled from the forum side.
- actionfromafar 2y agoYes but no: my ISP never carried alt.binaries
- immibis 2y agoCurrent text volume is on the order of a few gigabytes per day, including spam.
- actionfromafar 2y agoWay back then my ISP had a T1 shared among hundreds of customers. :-D
- speckx 2y agoI recall my ISP doing the same eventually around the same time. At first, they stopped carrying binary groups and, later, all of Usenet.