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From: gaf@uucs1.UUCP (gaf)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Daily news volume disagrees w/uunet stats
Message-ID: <123@uucs1.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 89 20:26:00 GMT
Reply-To: gaf@uucs1.UUCP ()
Organization: UUCS inc., Phoenix Az
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We're a bit new to Usenet (just sent out the map entry last week), but
our daily average volume of news seems much higher than I would expect.
I've been reading news.lists from another site for some months, and
the daily average at uunet always seems to be 4 - 5 Mb per day.

We're deliberately not receiving the soc, talk, and sci groups, which
together should account for about 1/3 of the total volume.  By my figuring
we should be getting 3 - 4 Mb a day.  Instead we're getting around 6 Mb!
That's even higher than the uunet average for all groups!

The cross-posted articles do seem to be linked to one another, so it's not
that.  To expire articles, I run "find ... -exec rm ..." to make sure I
get everything, regardless of posted expiration dates.

Is the standard deviation just so large that the average doesn't mean
much?  Certainly a posting like MGR skews things temporarily, but last
week was lighter than normal anyway (being a 3 day week many places). 
Is something out of whack in my news software?  Do your averages look
more like mine or uunet's?

-- 
Guy Finney					It's that feeling of deja-vu
UUCS inc.   Phoenix, Az				all over again.
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