xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) (09/22/89)
BANDWIDTH WASTERS HALL OF FAME
for articles in
/usr/spool/news/news/groups
Thu Sep 21 19:57:47 PDT 1989
Bytes Volume Offending
Wasted Share Articles Guilty Party
98894 17.65% 8 spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
52666 9.40% 14 chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
29514 5.27% 7 dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
28385 5.07% 12 brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
21791 3.89% 11 woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
12197 2.18% 1 dias@iris.ucdavis.edu (Gihan Dias)
11219 2.00% 2 blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
11204 2.00% 2 mor@datlog.co.uk ( Mike O'Reilly )
10359 1.85% 4 werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
10246 1.83% 6 PEDRO@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Pedro Saizar (614-292-7881))
9333 1.67% 1 fink@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Paul fink)
9258 1.65% 5 welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
9159 1.64% 6 sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
8069 1.44% 3 davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
8065 1.44% 7 tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
6969 1.24% 2 wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
5845 1.04% 3 karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
5753 1.03% 2 lmb7421@ultb.UUCP (L.M. Barstow)
5445 0.97% 3 jdrew@CS.UOREGON.EDU
5244 0.94% 4 rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro)
5026 0.90% 3 randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson)
5020 0.90% 3 childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
4703 0.84% 2 govannon@tavi.rice.edu (Basalat Ali Raja)
4077 0.73% 4 brodie@moocow.uucp (Kent C. Brodie)
3891 0.69% 1 RGREENEB@RICEVM1.BITNET (Robert D. Greene)
3753 0.67% 2 usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
3753 0.67% 2 gorpong@telxon.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
3702 0.66% 1 sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
3573 0.64% 2 ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
3552 0.63% 2 whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
3525 0.63% 1 justin@inmet.UUCP (Justin du Coeur MKA Mark Waks)
3448 0.62% 2 karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
3371 0.60% 4 karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
3371 0.60% 3 ptgarvin@uokmax.UUCP (Patrick T. Garvin)
3117 0.56% 1 bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
2946 0.53% 2 nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister)
2911 0.52% 3 todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
2809 0.50% 2 otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
2792 0.50% 2 bee@cs.purdue.EDU (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
2789 0.50% 1 ps@fps.com (Patricia Shanahan)
2752 0.49% 1 bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
2736 0.49% 1 SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
2597 0.46% 2 oliver@athena.mit.edu (James D. Oliver III)
2363 0.42% 1 david@indetech.com (David Kuder)
2347 0.42% 1 brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
2277 0.41% 1 rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Rich Carreiro)
2151 0.38% 1 chuq@apple.com (Chuq Von Rospach)
2141 0.38% 2 pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina)
2131 0.38% 1 ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
2118 0.38% 1 mentat@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett)
1980 0.35% 1 cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
1957 0.35% 1 gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
1936 0.35% 1 russotto@wam.UMD.EDU
1927 0.34% 1 meade@cbnewse.ATT.COM (steve.meade)
1917 0.34% 1 mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann)
1915 0.34% 2 wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis)
1856 0.33% 1 lampman@heurikon.UUCP (Ray Lampman)
1833 0.33% 1 bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
1737 0.31% 1 franciskovich-dennis@CS.YALE.EDU (Dennis Franciskovich)
1731 0.31% 1 jamesa@rt3.cs.wisc.edu (James Armstrong)
1720 0.31% 1 elm@chilli.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller)
1710 0.31% 1 amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
1677 0.30% 1 rick@pavlov.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)
1665 0.30% 1 gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater)
1630 0.29% 1 jadler@eagle.wesleyan.edu
1626 0.29% 1 rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier)
1590 0.28% 1 jwm@stda.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
1579 0.28% 1 jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
1575 0.28% 1 yee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Jonathan Yee)
1571 0.28% 2 jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
1530 0.27% 1 ptgarvin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Patrick T. Garvin)
1488 0.27% 1 martens@ketch.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
1468 0.26% 1 vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
1465 0.26% 1 fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani)
1461 0.26% 1 spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
1414 0.25% 1 geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
1405 0.25% 1 gwydion@tavi.rice.edu (Basalat Ali Raja)
1371 0.24% 2 berryh@udel.EDU (217EVN)
1365 0.24% 1 legaspi@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Manuel Espiritu Legaspi)
1361 0.24% 1 guncer@sal-sun25.usc.edu (Selim Guncer)
1355 0.24% 1 rein@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (steve rein)
1355 0.24% 1 nobody@prles2.UUCP (nobody)
1337 0.24% 1 mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
1324 0.24% 1 paco@.sunysb.edu (Paco Romero)
1305 0.23% 1 rkpc@mergvax (Rob Kedoin)
1294 0.23% 2 akobayas@cvbnet.UUCP (Andrew Kobayashi)
1294 0.23% 1 mike@cochise
1291 0.23% 1 perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
1290 0.23% 1 steve@revolver.gatech.edu
1289 0.23% 1 hwt@.uucp (Henry Troup)
1253 0.22% 1 story@can503.UUCP (Robert Story)
1252 0.22% 1 cew@venera.isi.edu (Craig E. Ward)
1237 0.22% 1 scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
1226 0.22% 1 weiss@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Seggev Weiss)
1216 0.22% 1 aluko@portia.Stanford.EDU (Stephen Goldschmidt)
1213 0.22% 1 eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
1174 0.21% 1 jbillone@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jeremy Billones)
1165 0.21% 1 matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
1159 0.21% 1 art@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Art Mulder)
1156 0.21% 1 gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
1103 0.20% 1 schaut@cat9.CS.WISC.EDU (Richard Schaut)
1092 0.19% 1 richter@kepler.sw.mcc.com (Charlie Richter)
1091 0.19% 1 cllee@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Chia Ling Lee)
1088 0.19% 1 news@m2xenix.UUCP (news aka randy)
1064 0.19% 2 lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear)
1057 0.19% 1 lundy@maxzilla.Encore.COM (Joe Lundy)
1051 0.19% 1 alan@servax0.essex.ac.uk (Stanier A)
1043 0.19% 1 paul@devon.LNS.PA.US (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
1013 0.18% 1 ambar@ora.UUCP (Jean Marie Diaz)
987 0.18% 1 odysseas@umbc5.umbc.edu (Odysseas Pentakalos (RJE))
967 0.17% 1 goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
946 0.17% 1 gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
911 0.16% 1 kaufman@gmu90x.UUCP (Ken Kaufman)
863 0.15% 1 ndonald@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nick Donaldson)
844 0.15% 1 oze@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (david.orzechowicz)
828 0.15% 1 paravia@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark David Kakatsch)
825 0.15% 1 fors@ndmath.UUCP (Guy Fors)
806 0.14% 1 kenb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Ken Berger)
799 0.14% 1 doug@letni.UUCP (Doug Davis)
783 0.14% 1 gant@concave.uucp (Alan Gant)
782 0.14% 1 sl176011@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (mark zagorin)
777 0.14% 1 richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
742 0.13% 1 daniels@grue.dec.com (Bradford R. Daniels)
737 0.13% 1 ded@kossy.jhuapl.edu (Jigsaw)
730 0.13% 1 kegel@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Dave Kegel)
705 0.13% 1 marvin@oakhill.UUCP (Marvin Denman)
702 0.13% 1 stabron@dcscg1.UUCP (Susan S. Tabron)
697 0.12% 1 dsa@dlogics.UUCP (David Angulo)
652 0.12% 1 rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
650 0.12% 1 jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke)
633 0.11% 1 pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
591 0.11% 1 koo@tcville.HAC.COM (Frances Koo)
566 0.10% 1 michelbi@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michel Biedermann)
552 0.10% 1 diblanch@sdrc.UUCP (Jeff Blanchet)
522 0.09% 1 ltucker@tardis.UUCP (Leo Tucker)
495 0.09% 1 cssrajh@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Alan J Holmes)
460 0.08% 1 avery@well.UUCP (Avery Ray Colter)
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560156 99.99% 250 Totals for 137 authors
(Roundoff fuzz may make total share < 100.00%)
(Sorry, if you posted from more than one site, you got more
than one entry. It's unavoidable; think about it! But even
though your subtotals look smaller, we know who you are!)
[A shar file of the scripts used to create this article was
posted to alt.sources by the author, Kent Paul Dolan.]rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rich Kulawiec) (09/22/89)
In article <13748@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > Bytes Volume Offending > Wasted Share Articles Guilty Party ...and then lists Gene Spafford, Chuq Von Rospach, Brad Templeton, and Greg Woods among the top five "guilty parties". Mr. Dolan, you're an idiot. Not only are these folks well-known for their long history of contributions to Usenet, but it's absurd to blindly classify their articles as "wasteful" or "offensive", tally up the bytes, and then start pointing fingers. It's especially absurd in Gene's case, since the articles you're counting from him are automated monthly postings -- which, perhaps you should read thoroughly before *you* waste so much bandwidth in the future. -- Rich Kulawiec, rsk@boulder.colorado.edu, boulder!rsk
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (09/22/89)
> BANDWIDTH WASTERS HALL OF FAME > 98894 17.65% 8 spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) > 52666 9.40% 14 chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) That's depressing. I remember the Good Old Days when I was one of the top ten USENET sites... Now the best I can do is second place in news.groups. Oh, well... Of course, I was listed at least twice in the message (you probably ought to do case insensitive sorts, you know...) and various people's definitions of bandwidth wasting vary. Mine, for instance, includes long, useless tabulations of meaningless data trying to prove stupid concepts. -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking. I am not Appl Segmentation Fault. Core dumped.
blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews) (09/23/89)
In article <13748@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: | BANDWIDTH WASTERS HALL OF FAME | for articles in | /usr/spool/news/news/groups | Thu Sep 21 19:57:47 PDT 1989 | Bytes Volume Offending | Wasted Share Articles Guilty Party | 98894 17.65% 8 spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) | 52666 9.40% 14 chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) | 29514 5.27% 7 dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) | 28385 5.07% 12 brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) | 21791 3.89% 11 woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) | 12197 2.18% 1 dias@iris.ucdavis.edu (Gihan Dias) | 11219 2.00% 2 blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Wow! The first time I've ever been on a news list. Unfortunately, I'm only seventh, so I thought I'd pad my number a bit by posting this article to thank all of the little people (particularly Kent Paul Dolan, the smallest of them all) who made this award possible. And because no one should be considered an official bandwidth waster without posting to the whole world, I've changed the distribution header to world. Thank you very much. Brian L. Matthews
PEDRO@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Pedro Saizar (614-292-7881)) (09/23/89)
In article <11961@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rich Kulawiec) writes: > ....and then lists Gene Spafford, Chuq Von Rospach, Brad Templeton, and Greg > Woods among the top five "guilty parties". > > Mr. Dolan, you're an idiot. Not only are these folks well-known for their > long history of contributions to Usenet, but it's absurd to blindly classify > their articles as "wasteful" or "offensive", tally up the bytes, and then > start pointing fingers. It's especially absurd in Gene's case, since the > articles you're counting from him are automated monthly postings -- which, > perhaps you should read thoroughly before *you* waste so much bandwidth > in the future. > -- > Rich Kulawiec, rsk@boulder.colorado.edu, boulder!rsk Rich, do you need an smiley face each time anyone is being ironic or saying something in a fun sort of way? I made the 10th place and I will keep working hard to make it better! (of course, quantity AND quality. That's our goal, isn't it?) Pedro Waster # 10 Columbus, OH ************************************************************************ VOTE FOR OR AGAINST SOC.CULTURE.LATIN-AMERICA, BUT VOTE ! ************************************************************************
dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) (09/23/89)
In article <13748@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > BANDWIDTH WASTERS HALL OF FAME > for articles in > /usr/spool/news/news/groups Is is worse to waste bandwidth on a given topic or to waste bandwidth on bandwidth waste? > Bytes Volume Offending > Wasted Share Articles Guilty Party > > 98894 17.65% 8 spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Right, wasted bytes. > 29514 5.27% 7 dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) Only 5%? I'll have to do better than that. :-) > 9333 1.67% 1 fink@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Paul fink) > 9258 1.65% 5 welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) And a rerun after the posting of the Hall of Fame would include: 9317 1.66% 1 xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) right up there in the Top 20. >[A shar file of the scripts used to create this article was >posted to alt.sources by the author, Kent Paul Dolan.] So we can all waste even more bandwidth posting results and flaming wastage on other groups? What's the point, Mr. Dolan? -- Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)
karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) (09/23/89)
In article <13748@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > BANDWIDTH WASTERS HALL OF FAME Uh oh, it... is... alive. >[A shar file of the scripts used to create this article was >posted to alt.sources by the author, Kent Paul Dolan.] Toot, toot! -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first." -- Pascal
brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) (09/23/89)
Yeah, and I'm pissed because I wasn't in the top 10. - Brian
davisp@marina.CWRU.EDU (Palmer Davis) (09/23/89)
I have three questions concerning the "Bandwidth Wasters' Hall of Fame." Please excuse me if I sound ignorant, but: 1) What criteria were used to label an article a "waste" of bandwidth? 2) How can you complain about people wasting bandwidth and then turn around and post a 157-LINE ARTICLE FULL OF UTTERLY USELESS INFORMATION????!!!! 3) Who appointed you moderator? Just curious, -- Palmer Davis -- Palmer T. Davis | The opinions expressed herein are my own Case Western Reserve University | and do not necessarily represent the truth. davisp@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu | Flame away to your heart's content.