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- From: Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (VTT/TEL)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Global Birthday Greetings
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:03:08 GMT
- Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Lines: 18
- Message-ID: <1ee0gsINNifr@tik.vtt.fi>
- References: <1992Nov17.143434.22778@njitgw.njit.edu>
- <1992Nov18.101006.26635@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <avalon.722087605@coombs>
- Reply-To: savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: tel4.tel.vtt.fi
- In-reply-to: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au's message of 18 Nov 92 11:53:25 GMT
-
- In article <avalon.722087605@coombs> avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) 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,
-
- >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.
-
- It is not sensible to include server-client traffic into cost. This is
- mostly local or near local traffic and can be ignored.
-
- I do agree that b'day "wall" is idiotic, it is not due to the
- bandwidth, but due to useless interruption it caused to the
- recipients.
- --
- Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Telecommunications Laboratory, Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland
-