[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Free news (nntp) server?

[Anonymous]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message 
news:dohno7$aoo$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> An example of forever gigs is octanews, who sells 8 gigs for $8.  For
> text only [and headers don't count and neither does posting] - 8 gigs
> would probably last for years.  There are lower prices per gig for
> bigger blocks if one needed both text and binaries.

An example from real-life:
I currently pull 10 newsgroups. I've been running for one day since I last 
rebooted (I messed up while programming, and blue-screened my machine, 
forcing a reboot).

Hamster Playground shows that I've pulled approximately 28MB of data.

So, for moderately active newsgroups, you can expect about 3MB per 
newsgroup per day, rounding up.