On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 09:52:25PM +0300, Michelle Konzack wrote: > MANY IAP forbid the use of NNTP (e.g. the french Providers Bougues and > Orange) because of the HUGE traffic it produce.
NNTP is about the same efficiency as email. Usenet with binaries groups, on the other hand, matches what you are thinking about. > Also you can not access NNTP from mobile devices without killing your > data traffic allowance... As above. > Telia in Estonia has no restrictions, but downloading the index of a > Kernel Devel Newsgroup has just produced 356MByte traffic! WTF? > 96.000 Messages? > > NO THANKS! 96000 messages sounds like a couple of years worth of traffic -- and kernel groups tend to send patches. You're letting specific weird cases frighten you away from a perfectly reasonable protocol. -dsr-
