Alexander Chislenko <sasha@cs.umb.edu> writes:
Jeremy Porter writes:
... Usenet traffic being rated at some 21gigabytes a year (traffic through UUnet) considering the low information value of the vast majority of it, no one will be interested in storing it.
Wait a minute... How much would it cost to store all this info? a few hundred thousand dollars a year?
Exabyte is coming out with a 25gb 8mm drive, so storing all that traffic for a year will cost you about $8.95. :-) Jon -- ,,, (o o) Jon Boede ----ooO-(_)-Ooo---- jon@dell.com +1 512 728-4802 Engineering, Dell Computer Corp. Server OS Development Austin, TX "When I was 10, mean old man Miller's house burned down. We put home plate where his toilet once stood -- his garden became our center field... and in these ways the laws of karma were revealed."