Re: what's the current volume of USENET?

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:20:41 +0000, Jesse Rehmer wrote:

On Dec 22, 2024 at 5:28:36 AM CST, "Julien ÉLIE"
<iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:
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Hi Noel,
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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.

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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?
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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
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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?
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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

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My stats show approximately 25MB per day, any typically around
8,000-9,000
articles per day.
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After the Google Groups fiasco went away that seems to be the 'norm' for
a
full text feed.
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https://news.blueworldhosting.com
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I would like to have more statistics on articles per hierarchy/group.

I do run a script on i2pn2.org that logs Newsgroups headers and counts
them.
It simply just increments the count for every time a duplicate is
encountered, so crossposts show up as an entry. I wanted it to check
some groups and don't really use it much, but I guess I could run it
more regularly if it's useful to some people.
The link below show the output for it running for about one month:
https://news.i2pn2.org/common/newsgroups_dat.txt
It gets logged into an array and the output above is from a dump of data
from that array.
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Retro Guy