>From what I heard, some new versions of news server software has
such a ratio in place by default. The sysadmin has to manually
disable it. The problem is then of course these days not many ISPs
are knowledgeable enough to reconfigure software or even find out the
current configuration. So it is likely that the ratio is in place
without themselves knowing it.
-- Albert Y.C. Lai trebla@io.org http://www.io.org/~trebla/