Re: what's the current volume of USENET?

noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> writes:

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:40:36 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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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
 

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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.
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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.

Thank you for the stats!  (And for running Ausics.  It's a nice idea to
provide an IP based access.  Maybe I should do one just like that for my
country.)

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 :)

It's understandable considering their skill level with the whole thing,
which is pretty skill level zero, nowadays even in computer science
departments.  Sadly. :)