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On 18 Aug 1996 20:21:42 GMT, karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch (Andreas Karrer)
wrote:

>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.
>
 I dont know vexactly how may cancellation they had to make..
look to www.switch.ch site .. the orginal article should still be
around..

I also know that Switch has some serious problems with capacity (only
400kb/s towards the US.. 200 ppl surfing at 2 kb/s for about 70 % of
switzerland (some private providers like EUNET have their own lines).)

Hope the news service get's up fairly quickly again... it's my number
1 means of getting topical info

Robert Ribnitz
(IIUF Uni Fribourg)
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robert.ribnitz@unifr.ch