Re: New Newsgroup

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

If your ISP doesn't give you some space to create a site, you can always get
free space at Geocities or some other free web space provider. Unfortunatley
you do get some very annoying ads.

Michael Kurkowski wrote:

> Binaries cost ISP's a lot of money. Period. Since this is the case, many
> ISP's refuse to carry binaries newsgroups. The reason it costs so much
> money is that the ISP still recieves every single binary file from each
> newsgroup that it provides, whether anyone looks at it or not. Due to the
> nature of usenet, where articles expire from anywhere between 6 hours and
> an infinitive amount of time, most ISP's will expire articles after around
> about 7 days. This makes people inclined to re-post binaries, in most
> cases, more crap that no-one will ever download. Because of the encoding
> used to allow binaries onto usenet, more bandwidth is used still.
>
> If the photo is on a web site however, it is in a ready to view (i.e. not
> encoded) format, which utilises less bandwidth, and will ONLY come through
> the ISP link if someone requests it, i.e. a web browser. If the ISP in
> question has a proxy, the photo in question will only come through once,
> until it expires off the web proxy.
>
> Bear in mind also, that usenet, and particularly the binaries newsgroups
> were designed primarily for USA conditions, where bandwidth is dirt cheap.
> Bandwidth in Australia is comparitively expensive, so binaries after all
> are an unwanted expense in the opinion of many ISPS.
>
> Hope this answers your and many other peoples questions...



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