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I would be curious how much is text vs video/images/audio?

• u801e 9y ago
  I'm not sure how to calculate it accurately, but the top 1000 usenet servers page maintains statistics based on the number of articles each server listed has seen [1]. The contributors list for the previous month [2] shows the server names along with the number of articles they've processed that month (I believe). The eternal-september news server which only serves text newsgroups processed 7,029,191 articles. usenetexpress, on the other hand, processed 1,654,703,028 articles (since it serves both text and binary newsgroups). Assuming that the text articles are a strict subset of the total number of articles, the text traffic is about 0.4% of total traffic. On top of that, the average size of a text article may be around 3 kilobytes and the average size of a binary article is about 750 kilobytes, the percentage by size is even lower than that (about 0.0017%). [1] http://top1000.anthologeek.net/ http://top1000.anthologeek.net/ [2] http://top1000.anthologeek.net/participants.txt http://top1000.anthologeek.net/participants.txt
• kev009 9y ago
  You can look at my innreports for a full text feeder at http://csiph.com/ http://csiph.com/.