From: noel <deletethis@invalid.lan>
Subject: Re: what's the current volume of USENET?
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:28:36 +0100, Julien ÉLIE wrote:

> Hi Noel,
> 
>> As for articles, text groups, in past 22.5 hours (since last daily
>> maintenance run) we've received just over 21K articles, at about 51mb.
> 
> Oh, interesting, I then wrongly thought there were less than this
> traffic.
> Is your count of 21,000 articles a day after the run of spam and abuse
> filters?
> 

yep, the rejects daily for last run was about 2K, long term is skewed due 
to the google trash, but it becomes clearer with more months passing 
since they went away.


> If I look at the statistics of Eternal-September, I only see about 3,000
> articles a day in the Accepted column:
>    https://eternal-september.org/stats/index.html
> 
> I thought they had most of text groups.  There is a huge difference (x7)
> between the counts.  Do you happen to know which hierarchies have most
> of the 21,000 articles?
> 

Not off hand, dnews doesnt give that sort of reporting, only top groups.

> i2pn2 and nk.ca have both about 6,000 articles a day; pasdenom.info
> about 4,000, so I am intrigued by your volume.
>    https://forum.i2pn2.org/
>    https://ns2.nk.ca/ https://pasdenom.info/usenet/index.html

I've had a quick look at a few servers a couple months ago when 
cybershock was doing their latest update, a number of those servers do 
not carry all the aus.* groups, some apparently none at all (out of the 
groups I tested), if that happens for aus.* its more than likely 
happening in other hierachies.