Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!pyramid!gould9!joel From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm Subject: Re: The most expensive bug in the history of Usenet? Message-ID: <553@gould9.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-May-86 18:19:01 EDT Article-I.D.: gould9.553 Posted: Wed May 14 18:19:01 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 16-May-86 05:32:44 EDT References: <221@epimass.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif. Lines: 30 Xref: linus net.news:4007 net.news.adm:674 Summary: 1,054 articles In article <221@epimass.UUCP>, jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes: > Sometime over the weekend, it seems that site 'hpitg' shipped > everything in its spool back out to the net, 10-20 Mbytes > worth. You can recognize these articles on your machine by > their "Path:" headers, which have the form > > Path: ...!hpitg!site!user@site I executed the following shell script to count and pull these: #!/bin/sh L=$HOME/HPITG cd /usr/spool/news/net find . -exec grep -s '^Path:.*!hpitg' {} \; -exec echo {} \; >$L wc $L df rm `cat $L` df By my estimate, I found 1,054 articles totalling ca. 2.5 mb that reached here. Some came hplabs->sdcrdcf, others hplabs->hao->seismo etc. I'd previously heard claims that Notes was superior in some aspects, but it seems apparent that it is unable to keep up with the demands of the current net traffic. -- Joel West (619) 457-9681 CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA 92037 {cbosgd, ihnp4, pyramid, sdcsvax, ucla-cs} !gould9!joel joel%gould9.uucp@NOSC.ARPA