[net.general] Size of Netnews

vjja (01/04/83)

I have keep a running count of the number of bytes of netnews recieved on
houxm.  For those of you interested the data was collected starting Dec. 1.
Initially there were 2368 articles, totalling 2484914 bytes.  The sample was
taken once a day, generally just after midnight, the minimum was for articles
recieved on Dec. 24, the maximum for Dec. 18.  houxm is a bell labs machine.

The statistics for bytes recieved:
            total  samples     average       min       max   std dev
          7149839       33      216661      2934    380975  93764.78


The statistics for articles recieved:
            total  samples     average       min       max   std dev
             6382       33         193         3       329     81.91

Jim Allen (houxm!vjja)