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:
>

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.

 
Wait---what do you mean "grows about 1.5gb a month"?  Do you mean
traffic has been growing at about 1.5gb each month?  IOW, it's growing
steadily lately?