>> Over the next year I intend to
>>serve a few downstream sites belonging to Greens around California. These
>>will be dial-up long-distance UUCP feeds. I'd like to feed them
>>alt.gathering.rainbow, since our values are so similar.
--- Again, I would suggest faster modems. They do wonders for reducing long distance costs.> >If your system can't handle the amount of blather you want to subscribe to, >you need more system. Very few people bring newsfeeds directly into their >mone computers -- and those who do are very well advised to invest in more >than 80 megs of disk space. With more and more Internet dial-up access >POPs, it's hard to imagine the need to have netnews delivered, en masse, >onto your hard disk at home. But suit yourself. Just don't scream at >everyone to quit using up *your* bandwidth if that's the way you want to >handle netnews.
--- But connecting to a system to actually *read* the news often costs more, both in $$/connect hour *and* time it takes to read.>Wow, talk about generalizations. So everything that's not constructive in >your worldview is a waste of precious bandwidth, eh? Can you say "New Age >Cyberspace Fundamentalist?" Knew you could.
--- Bandwidth is not infinite, but at the same time, there are things Cameron could do to improve his situation as well.Just my 3.5 cents... william
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