different isp's newserver perfomance test we could all do?

Hi folks. This might seem a little off topic, but there are often
posts here from people asking for isp's that have a decent
newserver, or that offer a premium service, but how do you define
this?

I was thinking that we could come up with a set of tests we could
all do and post the replies? Say decide upon 10 or so different
newsgroups, and then we could all post the results for how many
posts we have in each group for say Fri and Sat last weekend (or
some other suitable period), and what retention we all have for
the various groups?

Anybody any thoughts on this?

Alex.

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:58:52 +0000, "Alex, Boosbeck."
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I was thinking that we could come up with a set of tests we could
>all do and post the replies? Say decide upon 10 or so different
>newsgroups, and then we could all post the results for how many
>posts we have in each group for say Fri and Sat last weekend (or
>some other suitable period), and what retention we all have for
>the various groups?
no interest i guess then!

Alex, Boosbeck. wrote:

> no interest i guess then!

The heaviest downloaders probably use commercial services
from overseas. There's a dedicated alt... newsgroup for
comparing binary news services already.

Nice Idea, Alex, but it may need a few days for others to
see it... 24 hours isn't a lot of time. Peter M.

Alex, Boosbeck. wrote:

> no interest i guess then!

How would it cope with news servers like News Individual Net which
automatically remove articles containing spam, viruses and anything with
bad header information?. Their article count would be noticeably less
than some of the less managed servers but it certainly doesn't mean the
service is worse.

Article counting wouldn't be enough - you would have to have some way of
quantifying what was missing.

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