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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Fantastic Elastic Plastic USENET add - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 31-Oct-83 22:35:28 EST
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Oct 31 10:25:00 1983

Maybe we have a better data base than most people. From our routing tables,
I found that to send mail to a non-internal machine, it takes an average of
3.85 hops, with a maximum of 7 hops. That's not too bad.
   There may be reasons why some people use the longer-hop paths by the
way. Perhaps there is some policy in bell labs saying that it's better to
connect to other bell lab sites. That would kind of make sense.

sites =  1564  sum =  6017	gives average of 3.85
num of 1 hop sites = 1
num of 2 hop sites = 14
num of 3 hop sites = 540
num of 4 hop sites = 720
num of 5 hop sites = 243
num of 6 hop sites = 42
num of 7 hop sites = 3

Ain't AWK wunnerful?

Spoken	: Dirk Grunwald
	  University of Illinois
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