[BBLISA] nnrp clarification on limitations

Scott Ehrlich scott at ehrlichtronics.com
Sat Feb 12 11:42:27 EST 2005


>I've not heard or seen any NNTP services that have no downloaded bytes
>cap. It would be used/abused that it would be cost effective for
>whomever was providing it. I've used easynews (http://www.easynews.com)
>for a couple years, and they just moved to a 10G/month quota.
>
>Comcast's cap is 2GB/month, what could you possibly be downloading that
>you need more? It wouldn't be anything illegal would it? :)
>
>Sean

Nothing illegal to my knowledge.   There are avi files from an overseas tv
show posted to a newsgroup that gives me a chance to watch said shows.

I could certainly do more research and see if such postings are considered
illegal, in which case I would end my nnrp search.

Scott




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