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Re: Shady!
said by grumpygeek  :If a customer is going to run their cable modem at 100%, it's much better economically to have them pounding on your news servers than on your external connections. But I can see a lot of ISP's being in an awkward place on this one. It's one thing to have a customer viewing web pages of atrocious stuff. It's quite another to have documented policies of how many days you cache alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen and dedicate support resources to it. My provider, SpeakEasy, gets around that by simply providing a basic subscription to GigaNews. So, they don't have to dedicate support services or dodge the landmines of explaining retention policies.
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grumpygeek
join:2004-12-14
Houston, TX
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If a customer is going to run their cable modem at 100%, it's much better economically to have them pounding on your news servers than on your external connections.
But I can see a lot of ISP's being in an awkward place on this one. It's one thing to have a customer viewing web pages of atrocious stuff. It's quite another to have documented policies of how many days you cache alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen and dedicate support resources to it. |
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vincom1
join:2005-02-01
Wayne, NJ
1 edit |  It's a cheap excuse to cut something they most likely did not want to continue the expense of operation. |
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