Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!regoli From: regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: This week's download statistics of garbo, Vaasa, Finland Message-ID: <1991Mar4.140951.12045@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 4 Mar 91 14:09:51 GMT References: <1991Mar1.110445.20933@uwasa.fi> Organization: Indiana University Lines: 30 huopio@lut.fi (Kauto Huopio OH5LFM) writes: >> Here are the download statistics for garbo.uwasa.fi archives for the >> period from Fri 22-Feb-91 to Fri 1-Mar-91. This version of the >Now, DO WE NEED WEEKLY DOWNLOAD STATISTICS?? >If every single FTP site in the net that has IBM PC material would >send their stats to c.b.i.p.d.. I mean, is garbo.uwasa.fi so special >site that its statistics are a MUST-TO-READ to every net.person ? Why >we don't have here SIMTEL20 stats? ftp.funet.fi? Just wondering.. Applause, applause! I've been meaning to post something like this for quite some time. I find the information a total waste of network resources. I manage an ftp site which has ~10,000 anonymous ftp logins per month. I doubt seriously anyone would be interested in the most active files, or the most active ftp user in the bunch. Perhaps the folks in Finland are doing this for some sort of financial justification of their resources? (Don't all of our bosses love it when we crank out those quantitative reports?!) :) -- michael regoli regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu regoli@iubacs.BITNET