Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Statistics regarding commercial sites on Usenet Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 89 22:50:42 GMT References: <1989Jun13.064138.14675@twwells.com> <11661@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Organization: Rutgers - The Police State of New Jersey Lines: 25 To: andys@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com In article <11661@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> andys@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes: > In article <1989Jun13.064138.14675@twwells.com>, bill@twwells (T. William Wells) writes: > > 3940 70% commercial names > > 1727 30% noncommercial names > This may understate it. Some commercial domains don't put all their > hosts in the mail maps. They tell you the gateways to their domain or > a few critical subdomains, and hide the topology. Therefore, there > may be quite a few more hosts that you don't see. > Andy Sherman/AT&T Bell Laboratories/Murray Hill, NJ *NEW ADDRESS* Ditto the other way. Rutgers has only one machine in it's domain in the maps (rutgers.edu), but there are easily 100 machines (including all of the suns using NFS for news) that have access to news. Mark -- Mark Smith | "Be careful when looking into the distance, |All Rights 61 Tenafly Road|that you do not miss what is right under your nose."| Reserved Tenafly,NJ 07670-2643|rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith,msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise.