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join:2001-08-27
Palmdale, CA Reviews:
 ·Vitelity VOIP
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| Some usenet curiosity questions I've dabbled in Usenet newsgroups since my days with Verizon in 2003. I've always liked the concept of usenet where a message posted to one server will find it's way to other servers. In this way, if the local ISP usenet server went down, you could connect to another usenet server and still follow any discussions or do any downloading you may wish to do. If a forum or blog goes down, you can't even read any threads or discussion at all until it comes back, as the content isn't distributed across many separate servers.
I never understood though why local ISP servers limited the throughput of incoming binaries, when the folks using the server would be on-network?
Finally, it seems even some dedicated usenet providers such as supernews are outsourcing to Giganews, and they use to have their own usenet server farm network. How many separate usenet server networks are there nowadays? I can only think of giganews, Easynews, usenetserver, and newshosting. I believe Verizon may be the only actual internet service provider that still has their own usenet server setup? I wonder what made usenet suddenly go from something everyone knew they could use if they wanted, to something noone hardly knows exists nowadays? Interesting changes for sure, and I'd guess alot of it has to do with the incredible amount of dedicated bandwidth required to run a full usenet feed? |
