AOL Cache

[Jon Knight]

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Michael Sauers wrote:
> On the issue that some have raised regarding "but everyone caches and it's a
> normal part of the net" I will generally agree.  But, isn't what AOL is
> doing, i.e. caching on a much grander scale and not just on an individuals
> machine, a little different than what has been going on all along?

I think you'll find that the JANET Web Cache
(<URL:http://wwwcache.ja.net/>) is also caching on a relatively grand
scale (it handled 42960.468MB of traffic yesterday alone!) and has been
going for some years now.  Nobody seems to have a problem with it and
indeed the JISC (who fund JANET here in the UK) view it as such an
essential part of the academic network that it is going to be exempt from
trans-Atlantic usage charges when they are introduced later this summer.

Tatty bye,

Jim'll

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