Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: What's going on? Summary: Where are all the articles being posted to? Keywords: the end of the net as we know it Message-ID: <13027@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 22 Feb 89 14:30:39 GMT References: <12654@netsys.COM> <23361@conexch.UUCP> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Distribution: usa Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 19 In article <23361@conexch.UUCP> root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes: >In article <12654@netsys.COM> len@netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes: >>The news flow has dropped by magnitudes the last 9 hours at >>several sites I monitor,all with different sources.. Did something >>happen? > >Something has definitely happened. News volume has been down to about 25% of >normal here for the last five or so days. I'm still receiving the apparently correct number of articles, up around 1700 or so a day, but I don't see the same volume in the usual newsgroups. Perhaps someone at a backbone site could post newsgroup statistics and compare them against several weeks ago. Perhaps also with PCP being changed there are fewer users on the net. -- John F. Haugh II +--Quote of the Week:------------------ VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | "If I do not want others to quote me, InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne UucpNet : !killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------