Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wang!fitz
From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Upgrading Usenet (was Re: Who pays the bill?)
Message-ID: <ar37h5.c50@wang.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 00:17:21 GMT
References: <1990Aug1.230858.3264@iwarp.intel.com> <EMV.90Aug1202214@urania.math.lsa.umic <1990Aug02.203405.40@looking.on.ca> <29103@becker.UUCP> <1990Aug04.171540.29439@looking.on.ca> <26BCDA30.21C@intercon.com> <1990Aug7.180710.3872@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Lines: 20

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> based on analysis of message-IDs
> in our history file, C News is running at 600+ sites, about 12% of the
> active subset of Usenet.  

This is probably a serious underestimate, given the number of sites who:

- Are running mail-to-news gateways and use the mailmessage's Message-ID in
  the article.

- Don't like C-news's super-jumbo message IDs, and have modified inews to
  generate something more concise (like us).

Also, don't some NNTP posting agents generate their own message-IDs in
the posting program, rather then on the NNTP server?  This would hide
another population of C-news sites.

---
Tom Fitzgerald   Wang Labs        fitz@wang.com
1-508-967-5278   Lowell MA, USA   ...!uunet!wang!fitz