cunningh@noscvax.UUCP (06/05/83)
I'm looking for some past numbers on the sizes and amounts of messages historically passed over 'net.all' in order to estimate the amount of growth over the last few years (and hoppefully extrapolate a bit). Taking a few random samples of current messages (didn't hapen to include 'net.sources', by the way), I figure an average length of the body of a 'net.all' message to be around 19 lines (with a strange distribution that indicates I had better take some larger samples), or about 800 bytes. By my estimate, for the first 155 days of the year, the system I am using has received some 26,598 messages. That's about 172 messages (132K bytes, if my average size is anything near accurate) per day. Multiplying out to 365 days gives an expected number of approximately 62K messages (48M bytes) per year. That's not counting message headers, local news, nor 'fa.all'. Does anyone out there keep some good statistics that they could send me? Bob Cunningham .....!ucbvax!sdcsvax!noscvax!cunningh .....!philabs!sdcsvax!noscvax!cunningh <cunningh@nosc-cc>