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In article <1992Apr04.190406.5825@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
} In <1992Apr03.192215.26557@stephsf.com> wengland@stephsf.com (Bill England) writes:
} ...Stats deleted....
} >  The total modem transfer time for this data would be about
} >  5 hours for a cost of $71. (Including long distance telephone 
} >  and uunet access charges.)
} 
} >  I don't know if censored is the correct word here.  These
} >  groups are not here because of questionable usefulness and
} >  high expense.

} Syntax aside, I agree with Bill entirely.  The pictures binaries
} are 1/3 the total usenet traffic through uunet (if I remember the
} statistics correctly).

Depends on where you measure from.  alt.binaries was about 45% of the
alt traffic through uunet during each of the times I've checked in the
last couple months.   rec + soc is bigger than alt by a bit, and comp
is about 80% the size of alt.  Loosely approximating the rest of USENET
as 20% of alt (it's really more), alt.binaries couldn't be any more
than 17% of USENET traffic.

My actual figures include some of the alternative hierarchies.  With
them added (for 41 MB/day), alt.binaries accounts for just under 13%.
Given all news uunet gets (~50 MB/day), alt.binaries is just 10%.
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James Revell   sr uunet postmaster   <revell@uunet.uu.net>   /8^{~