On 21 Apr 2001, at 17:44, Bill Stewart wrote:
> At 08:15 PM 04/17/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >A brief data point to add to Bill's interesting post:
> >
> >I had dinner with someone from alt.net during my not-exactly-voluntary
> >visit to the Seattle area recently. He told me (this is from memory)
> >that Usenet is now on the order of 300 GB/day and they get a full feed.
> >90 percent is binaries.
>
> Gakkk.. That's ~27 megabits/second, over half a T3.
> I remember when I could *read* all of Usenet,
> and later when I could at least print out everything
> except net.singles and read it on paper :-)
Here's another factoid. 10 years ago, the news admin at my feed
was very proud of his new 1GB disc. He estimated it would give
him 7 day retention on the Big 7 and 3 days for alt.*, including
alt.binaries.
How things change...
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