Re: what's the current volume of USENET?

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:28:36 +0100, Julien ÉLIE wrote:

Hi Noel,
 

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.

 
Oh, interesting, I then wrongly thought there were less than this
traffic.
Is your count of 21,000 articles a day after the run of spam and abuse
filters?
 

yep, the rejects daily for last run was about 2K, long term is skewed due
to the google trash, but it becomes clearer with more months passing
since they went away.

If I look at the statistics of Eternal-September, I only see about 3,000
articles a day in the Accepted column:
   https://eternal-september.org/stats/index.html
 
I thought they had most of text groups.  There is a huge difference (x7)
between the counts.  Do you happen to know which hierarchies have most
of the 21,000 articles?
 

Not off hand, dnews doesnt give that sort of reporting, only top groups.

i2pn2 and nk.ca have both about 6,000 articles a day; pasdenom.info
about 4,000, so I am intrigued by your volume.
   https://forum.i2pn2.org/
   https://ns2.nk.ca/ https://pasdenom.info/usenet/index.html

I've had a quick look at a few servers a couple months ago when
cybershock was doing their latest update, a number of those servers do
not carry all the aus.* groups, some apparently none at all (out of the
groups I tested), if that happens for aus.* its more than likely
happening in other hierachies.