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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: what's the current volume of USENET?
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:28:20 -0300
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noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> writes:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:40:36 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for any notion of how busy USENET is right now, so the
>> number of servers and the number of articles posted by month is enough
>> for me.  I found
>> 
>
> Number of servers you'll never know, that top1000 depends on admins 
> bothering to configure and send stats, for every server that does there's 
> probably 20 that don't - I know we don't.
>
> 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.
> So grows about 1.5gb a month, roughly.

Thank you for the stats!  (And for running Ausics.  It's a nice idea to
provide an IP based access.  Maybe I should do one just like that for my
country.)

> far cry from years gone by where we'd see that and more in just one
> day, but, some people like the eye candy bloatware of html on forums
> now for some reason i'll never understand :)

It's understandable considering their skill level with the whole thing,
which is pretty skill level zero, nowadays even in computer science
departments.  Sadly. :)