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From: Mathew Hendry
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 16:15

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Rask Lambertsen (c948374@oersted.gbar.dtu.dk) wrote:
: On 29 Feb 1996 21:47:01 GMT Heikki Kantola (hkantola@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: > And secondly IMHO there's quite enough IRC servers
: > around already...
: 
: ??? They seem to be overloaded. More servers would make it possible to
: distribute the load.

Wrong. Pretty much all data has to pass through all servers, so adding more
servers barely reduces the load on each one. Add to this the fact that more
servers = more links, and you will see that the total bandwidth requirements
are _increased_ the more servers you have.

IRC does not need more servers; it needs larger ones with faster links.

-- Mat.

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Subject: Re: IRC request
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 96 16:15:57
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