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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel.anu.edu.au!coombs!avalon
- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Global Birthday Greetings
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:53:25 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
- Lines: 24
- Message-ID: <avalon.722087605@coombs>
- References: <1992Nov17.143434.22778@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Nov18.101006.26635@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
- Followups-To: alt.stupidity
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- troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo) writes:
-
- >From article <1992Nov17.143434.22778@njitgw.njit.edu>, by lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee):
- >> Speaking about wasting bandwidth, I would like to thank you Titus
- >> for taking so much care in not doing that yourself. That lovely wall message
- >> to all of *.edu about some idiots birthday really touched me, and was well
- >> worth the HUGE waste in bandwidth.
-
- >Oh yeah, real huge. It happens to be less than the bandwidth taken up by
- >a single MODE command. Now, with a bot generating MODE commands willy-nilly,
- >that bot is likely to waste far, far more bandwidth.
-
- There are more clients from *.edu servers/hosts at most any time of
- day than there are servers in total. Consider, there are at least 50
- servers which match *.edu and one of those has (at times) had one tenth
- of the total number of clients on IRC attached to it.
-
- If what titus says is true (about it being a global message and not a wall)
- then you're assuming he didnt send it to other host masks too...
-
- Anyway, do some maths and see which takes up more bandwidth: a single mode
- command or a message sent to *.edu.
-
- avalon
-