[NgtCrwlr]

Right now I have only 9 groups and don't plan to have more than 25. I know this is tiny and the bandwidth of even a history pull would not register on a meter. It still doesn't make me comfortable.

What about when/if any of us get popular and you end up with 500 to 2000 posts or more per day going out to usenet? Hmm one password and 1000K outgoing posts each day, I think that one might trip a red flag or two.

I think the biggest reason for my fear is that I'm not on a dedicated box yet and can't do some of the cool things that you dedicated guys can. If I had a usenet feed service send a spam alert to my current host I could effectively have my sites totally shut down, not just the news feed. Even if the problem was with some trouble maker on the BBS it still filters down to me.

So I guess it comes down to a few choices for me either leave the usenet forums read only and use free servers, pay the money for either a dedicated server, or pay the higher buck news service that understands and accepts what we are doing.

I'm still searching, who knows I might come up with a service that will welcome us all with open arms.