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In article <3219c285.98781980@news.unifr.ch>, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
>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.

> 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 saw 31,500 posts to n.a.n-a.m at TRIUMF.  Saw almost none
here because our spool was full after 3,700 and by the time it came back
up (cron job runs at 2200 to do the expires) the cancels had already
caught up to the articles (Mind you, the cancels themselves still came
through, up to 5,000/hr!)

>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).)

	See http://www.switch.ch/switch/lan/ for usage stats, though from
my memory of the paths in messages here, switch gets a lot of its Usenet
feeds from European sites, so I'm not sure that the _3_ Mb/s link to
the US is a limiting factor in Usenet propagation.  Remember, the idea
of Usenet is to get around difficulties like that, be they permanent,
temporary, accidental, or malicious.

-- 
Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH.     			reid@psi.ch