Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Images Group Message-ID: <1989Nov20.013356.17871@NCoast.ORG> Date: 20 Nov 89 01:33:56 GMT References: <65.25647EF1@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 37 As quoted from <65.25647EF1@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG> by rick@ofa123.FIDONET.ORG (Rick Ellis): +--------------- | In a message of , Brandon S. Allbery (1:102/161) writes: +-----------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^ ? Someone's Fido gateway software is confused. NCoast.ORG is not on the Fidonet, and if it were it'd be in Net 157. I suspect that this field should not be filled in in the case of a message gatewayed from the Usenet. +--------------- | >I hate to tell you folks, but ncoast gets a full feed... and occasionally | >has to drop back to 1200 baud to get it. The rest of the time, we get it at | >2400 baud. | | How long does it usually take at 2400? +--------------- If someone will give me a ballpark figure for the size I should use, I'll tell you. I can break it down in a number of different ways, but you'd have to tell me what measure to use. So far today (12:00 AM - 8:28 PM EST), we have received 2.4MB of news in compressed batches from our primary newsfeed. Estimating 70% compression (probably conservative), this translates to about 3.5MB. But a daily measurement isn't very accurate; a weekly one would do a better job because of the peculiarities of the connections from ncoast to the NNTP "backbone" through various sites; and this ignores news arriving from other sites (e.g. weekly calls from hoptoad and fmsrl7 produce many duplicate older articles, but their current articles are more current than hal.cwru.edu's are). ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery allbery@NCoast.ORG, BALLBERY (MCI Mail), ALLBERY (Delphi) uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp *(comp.sources.misc mail to comp-sources-misc[-request]@backbone.site, please)* *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)* expnet.all: Experiments in *net management and organization. Mail me for info.