Re: Low Newwsfeed: the causes

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From: Andreas Karrer
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:00

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In article <3215edf0.28836003@news.unifr.ch>, Robert Ribnitz wrote:

>If you asked yourself why trhe newsfeed was so low recently: well,
>
>Last saturday (1 week ago), some group of indivuadls spammed a
>new.admin newsgroup. This caused a wave of about 15.000 cancellations.

As much as I dislike Spams like the news.admin.net-abuse one: 15000
acticles/cancels is, hmm, peanuts. A news server carrying the big
eight plus alt processes roughly 10 times as many every day. If it
cannot cope with 10 percent fluke, it will have problems with normal
traffic in two months time.

-- 
  Andi Karrer, Institute for Electronics, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
  karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch    
  - Rien ne va, und schon gar nicht plus.

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