Re: what's the current volume of USENET?

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. 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 :)