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- From: mrgreen@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green)
- Subject: Re: Global Birthday Greetings
- Message-ID: <mrgreen.722120959@munagin>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Nov17.143434.22778@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Nov18.101006.26635@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <avalon.722087605@coombs> <1edbojINNoq5@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:09:19 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu) writes:
- >avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
- >>troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo) writes:
- >>
- >>>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.
-
- >i would have thought that a global matching $*.edu would just mean it uses
- >the bandwidth of sending to all the servers in *.edu (assuming that client
- >to server connections dont use much bandwidth at all which can be false
- >at times) so generally, what troy said is correct.
-
- Even so, it *then* has to be sent to every client connected to each of
- these servers. A MODE command is what
-
- :nick!user@host MODE #channel <mode>
-
- Depending on the <mode>, it really isn't that big.
- For a msg its something like
-
- :nick!user@host NOTICE <yournick> <text here>
-
- If you can show me that the MODE command would be more than the NOTICE
- <or PRIVMSG>, then I'll believe you.o
-
- From LUSERS *.edu *.edu
- -byron.u.washington.edu- There are 482 users and 175 invisible on 63 servers
-
- Over 600 clients. Thats for *.edu. There are about 200 servers on the net.
- I'll leave the maths to you.
-
- ..
-