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- From: titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Global Birthday Greetings
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 12:08:51 GMT
- Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
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- Message-ID: <1edbojINNoq5@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- References: <1992Nov17.143434.22778@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Nov18.101006.26635@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <avalon.722087605@coombs>
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- those of the Australian National University.
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- avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
- >troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo) writes:
- >
- >>Oh yeah, real huge. It happens to be less than the bandwidth taken up by
- >>a single MODE command. Now, with a bot generating MODE commands willy-nilly,
- >>that bot is likely to waste far, far more bandwidth.
- >
- >There are more clients from *.edu servers/hosts at most any time of
- >day than there are servers in total. Consider, there are at least 50
- >servers which match *.edu and one of those has (at times) had one tenth
- >of the total number of clients on IRC attached to it.
-
- i would have thought that a global matching $*.edu would just mean it uses
- the bandwidth of sending to all the servers in *.edu (assuming that client
- to server connections dont use much bandwidth at all which can be false
- at times) so generally, what troy said is correct.
-
- >avalon
-
- titus
- (Say NO to unattended bots)
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