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- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Global Birthday Greetings
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:57:41 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- Message-ID: <avalon.722123861@coombs>
- References: <1992Nov17.143434.22778@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Nov18.101006.26635@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <avalon.722087605@coombs> <1edbojINNoq5@manuel.anu.edu.au>
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- titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu) writes:
-
- >avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
- >>
- >>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.
-
- Umm...not quite. People in the USA don't always have a server in the same
- city to connect their client to and sometimes not even the same state.
- (And in most cases this is how it should be!).
-
- Not even in an ideal situation would Troy have been correct. The bandwidth
- needs to come from somewhere - except in an ideal setup its less(?)
- noticeable since all clients are on local links. And thats forgetting
- anyone who might be connected to a *.edu server from overseas...not an
- uncommon event.
-
- avalon
-