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- From: lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: A Server's Right to live (numbers and figures).
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.174515.4314@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:45:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.120107.12707@alf.uib.no> buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen) writes:
- >[A Sidenote: A server's right to live or not does not only depends on
- > if it has users or not. I see no problem in having several
- > servers under a domain (in the widest sense) as long as only
- > ONE server are connecting to the outside world. What is going
- > on inside a domain is entierly the domain's business.
- > This is also why the EBIC works.]
- >
- EBIC is right in this point, and I agree with it.
- BUT, I once again maintain that EBIC controls can not be
- directly applied to US routing.
-
- As a side note, are the not-US servers using hostmasking ? I know *.au
- does sometimes.. but I have seen it not use it. Also, what about europe ?
-
- >Darren Reed writes:
- >
- >[... some good points deleted ...]
- well, some valid points.. good is too wide a range.
- .
- >
- >>say no to servers with less than 10 regular users
- >
- >Well.. what is "regular" ? How does you mesure this ? How many users/hours
- >should one use ? 3 hours per user per day ? 12 hours ? 1 hour ?
- >This is like trying to tell who was Santa Claus last year !
- >
- >
- >A better measurement is finding out how much a server has served in TIME.
- >
- >This measurement should be done over a 30 day period. If it show up that
- >a server has server less than 30 days (1 day is 24 hours, not 12 hours),
- >one should question if the server has a right to live.
- >Of course one has to eliminate any "StupidoBoto".
- >
- I agree to this as well.
-
- >Example:
- Data from the most excellant ircstat program removed.
-
- >PS: There will soon be released (during Xmas) a new version of ircstat,
- > hopefully the new version will run a bit faster.
-
- Really ? When it is out, can you post to alt.irc or operlist ?
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- "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
- however improbable, must be the TRUTH !" Sherlock Holmes.
- (The opinions expressed herein are mine, and not NJITs)
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