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What gave him that idea? I get the feeling he's never impressed anyone in his life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disme
As low on the scale as this edit ranks as far as insults go, it still ranks just above "haterz be hatin" as an attempt to qualify oneself in the use of a communicative language. I guess that would make it sort of like an improvement. However, you should probably keep editing until you've got something intelligible in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by JustDOSE
According to top1000.org, new posts made on News-Service.com dropped about 60% compared to last week, so I'm guessing that they decided to block only the alt.binaries.* groups and keep the others (i.e. "text" groups).
Sorting through a hundred thousand plus newsgroups is no small task, so they probably took the easy way out and just blocked everything starting with "alt.binaries" but the fact is that there are also *text* discussion forums within the alt.binaries hierarchy. Such as one of my old favorites, alt.binaries.news-server-comparison -- which is a discussion board about usenet providers that offer binary newsgroups (such providers were relatively rare until recently) and not a place for posting binaries. But I'd be willing to bet that this baby got thrown out with the bath water. :(
Every once in awhile I take a look at the traffic numbers on usenet, and haven't seen any 'dip' of the numbers at all, in fact it just keeps going up and up. So one server out of hundreds falls off the map, and as far as the 'system' and total traffic counts are concerned, it means... nothing or next to nothing.
At least a couple times a year there are 'the sky is falling' pronouncements.
It's worth noting that XSnews.nl instantly rocketed to the top spot the moment that News-Service got knocked off. Obviously the server farm was located in a data center with a lot of reserve capacity, and they were able to just 'open the floodgates' the moment they got the order.
In contrast, if a site like the Pirate Bay, ISOhunt, or KickassTorrents were to suddenly get shut down, it would normally take a while for any of the remaining torrent sites to increase their hosting capacity in order to handle the flood of refugees. At least that was the way it always worked in the past; after a major takedown other sites start shutting their doors to keep from being DoS's offline.
File sharing refugees :D hahhhaa i like the sound of thatQuote:
Originally Posted by zot
Sites don't get shut down that easily, the owners have backups, backups and more backups.
Closing a site doesn't always get the root out, it takes more digging.
I don't think warts are the best analogy, since it's (dormant/active) viral.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alien5
There could be more than one way to skin a RIAA wart.