On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 06:59:43 +0100, Mary Hawking wrote:
>If *I* receive 100 messages in a day,then *I've* generated 1MB of
>traffic - is that correct?
No, you have not generated that traffic, it's all the others generating
the little bits of it. I don't know how mailbase handle its mail,
whether it sends mail directly to individual addresses or bulk mail to
mail servers. In any case, the traffic is in packets anyway.
So, the 1Mb or so destinied to you would have arrived in your mailbox
at your ISP. When you logon, you retrieve your mail from the box, bit
like going out in the rain to collect your mail from the box on the
porch.
Now imagine these 100 messages going off in different directions and
getting routed by different 'nodes' or relays. In that sense, it is
difficult to assess the impact of *all* mailbase mail on the network as
a whole. My guess is that it is tiny.
To give a perspective, there are over 140,000 messages posted to usenet
everyday!
>If there are 676 (October Review) members on the list, does this represent 676 MB of traffic in a day?
Not necessarily. Some of these 100 messages would have landed in
demon's mailserver, for example, others would have gone to other mail
servers and so on. Again, totalling the megabites is not a very
helpful measure.
On the other hand, sending a *single* 25Mb file by SMTP is a diffrent
matter.
Ahmad
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