News Groups on Broadband

Looking at tarifs etc on our one-and-only broadband supplier web site
(Karoo), they are stating that part of their management strategy is to
throttle the use of newsgroups.
Why do these use such high band width?
Is it because some users subscribe to hundreds of groups?

If I only subscribe to say 6 groups, will that still represent high
bandwidth - if so, why?

TIA

Phil




TheScullster

"TheScullster" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Looking at tarifs etc on our one-and-only broadband supplier web site
> (Karoo), they are stating that part of their management strategy is to
> throttle the use of newsgroups.
> Why do these use such high band width?
> Is it because some users subscribe to hundreds of groups?
>
> If I only subscribe to say 6 groups, will that still represent high
> bandwidth - if so, why?
>
> TIA
>
> Phil
>
Because you can use binary ng's to download huge files like movies n stuff,
usually faster and more reliable than torrents.(though not as easy to use)

Alex

TheScullster wrote:
> Looking at tarifs etc on our one-and-only broadband supplier web site
> (Karoo), they are stating that part of their management strategy is to
> throttle the use of newsgroups.
> Why do these use such high band width?
> Is it because some users subscribe to hundreds of groups?
> If I only subscribe to say 6 groups, will that still represent high
> bandwidth - if so, why?

*Text* newsgroups (like all of uk.*) are okay - its the 'binary'
newsgroups that get used for swapping mucky photos and cracked copies of
Vista that use up lots of bandwidth.

Unless your text news groups are very high volume you'd not be that
likely to notice throttling much - usenet propagation isn't real-time anyay.

Owain

"Alex Wilson" wrote

> Because you can use binary ng's to download huge files like movies n
> stuff, usually faster and more reliable than torrents.(though not as easy
> to use)
>
Thanks Alex
But what is the binary bit about?

Phil

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:05:55 +0100, "TheScullster"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>"Alex Wilson" wrote
>
>> Because you can use binary ng's to download huge files like movies n
>> stuff, usually faster and more reliable than torrents.(though not as easy
>> to use)
>>
>Thanks Alex
>But what is the binary bit about?
>
>Phil
>
I'm guessing that you must be new to Newsgroups, Phil. Try having a
read of this for more info:
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=1

Regards,

Mike K

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"Mike K" wrote

> I'm guessing that you must be new to Newsgroups, Phil. Try having a
> read of this for more info:
> http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=1
>

Thanks to all posters
Believe it or not, I am in no way a news group newbie - been using them for
at least 5 years.
As I am not a download/music/dvd junkie, anything but the text based
information groups have missed my radar completely.

Phil