Our goal in providing this service is to aggregate all K20 news feeds under a common structure so that we can provide the most efficient feeds possible. Efficiency is gained by closely following the physical topology of the K20 network, structuring news feeds within the network to minimize bandwidth utilization and keeping our news servers tuned for the highest performance. Our news servers make use of redundant incoming feeds from two top-level Usenet news feed services. The k20 news servers are arranged in a scalable heirarchy which will allow us to easily add outgoing capacity and redistribute load in the case of hardware failure. As of August 1998 we receive approximately 24,000 unique news groups containing around 750,000 articles a day.
Sites receiving a full feed can expect to receive around fourteen gigabytes of news daily.
We do not offer any news services for newsreaders. Our mission is to provide news transit to news servers within the K20 network. These news servers in turn provide newsreader access to their local clients. Our news servers run news server software which is written and tuned for NNTP transit only. In fact, this software is incapable of supporting newsreaders even if we wanted to.