[SunRescue] Re: Router vs. PC with router/firewall software...

[Mike Hebel]

>>unfortunately, that wouldn't work. you'd have 200gigs of traffic banging
on
>>your connection every day. rejections are handled after the article is
>>streamed to the site.

*whew* Glad I asked first! Thanks.

>>but again, carrying hierarchies and subheirarchies, as long as they aren't
>>binaries or alt.sex.* or warez, winds up being very little traffic. you
>>don't have to take your granularity down to the group level to achieve
>>efficient use of bandwidth. specifying comp.lang*, alt.comp*, rec.music*
>>etc would amount to trivial amounts of bandwidth, even though that would
>>encompass nearly 500 groups.

I'm not exactly sure what hierarchies/groups I'd want for certain.  I'll
have to connect to a news server over the next few months and see what I'd
want on my end.

Thankfully I chose to start asking these questions _before_ I set this stuff
up!

Mike Hebel