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From: Patrick Scott Darden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Q: news servers
>A full news feed is about 28GB, 30,000 news groups, 700,000
>articles, all per day. About 80% of that is binaries, 65% of which are in
>alt.bin*, with alt.warez* taking up most of the rest of that binary
>bandwidth.
Ouch. That's 8 articles per second.
That's also 229,376 megabits per day, or 2.65 megabits per second, more
bandwidth than a T1.
Remove binaries, and that's about 45875.2 megabits per day, or .531
megabits per second. Not even a 512k pipe can handle it.
Thanks; that settles a lot of questions.
It also shows that the anti-spammers are right; if the spam wasn't there
(they estimate it's half the traffic) it'd all fit nicely in a T1. Assuming
they're correct in their "half" estimate.
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