RE: University of Alaska's USENET feed - comp.os.linux.misc?

[fskrh <fskrh@uaf.edu>]

Do you think you could peer with UC Berkeley's newsfeed, or Supernews' feed?

Take a look at <http://www.freenix.org/reseau/top1000/> for more information 
on good USENET feeds around the world..


>===== Original Message From LUG-L@galileo.admin.uaf.edu =====
>Time frame for replacement hardware/upgrade of INN is approx 2 months.
>I know this as I'm the guy building & deploying the machine.  At/near
>that same time, I'll be looking for better feeds.  When news.alaska.edu
>was deployed, gatekeeper.dec.com was one of the top 3 or 4 in the world
>and has since dropped waaaay down the list.  If anyone knows of a good
>feed (someplace that would be *willing* to exchange feeds, not just a
>good archive like dejanews) I'd be interested in hearing about it.  If
>at all possible, please include an email contact for the INN admin.
>
>The new machine will have a 50+ Gb spool area and we should be able to
>keep almost everything but the binaries groups for about 30 days.  I'm
>not sure how long the binaries will stay, probably a week.
>
>fskrh wrote:
>>
>> Is it just me or is our newsfeed seriously poor?  It starts to say upwards 
of
>> 14,006 headers for comp.os.linux.misc, then when it actually downloads the
>> headers all I get is 73.  Is something wrong with my newsreader?
>>
>> Anyone have similar problems with news.alaska.edu?
>
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