jpp@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt) (07/12/89)
Here are some interesting news stats:
1) 2688 sites are listed as receiving news (from #U lines in maps)
2) If the average feed is 3 MB a day thats 8.046 GBytes a day.
3) If the average data rate is 1600 BPS (50% compression 'blazer)
then thats 1468 hours of modem time a day.
4) If it costs $0.0031 per K (uunet night rate) then USENET
costs $25,598 a day to run. (about $10 million a year).
This does not include unmapped sites, mail etc.
John
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In article <1989Jul12.162419.5782@specialix.co.uk> jpp@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt) writes:
[ stuff leading to the conclusion that .. ]
USENET
costs $25,598 a day to run. (about $10 million a year).
This does not include unmapped sites, mail etc.
But this assumes all news comes via modem. Surely this is untrue for Internet sites?
(and Janet, and such).
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