For the month of April, 1996, the 22 mailing lists which autox.team.net
hosts had a total of 6,275 messages come in, totaling 9,303,895 bytes,
destined for 5,889 list addresses.
Calculating the distribution of these messages to the lists, there were
about 2.27 million pieces of outgoing mail pushed out the wire, which is
an average of about 75,000 per day. I'll leave it as an exercise to the
reader to figure out the average message size, and how many bytes those
2.27 million pieces of outgoing mail put on the net.
The 5 biggest lists:
List Bytes Messages Members Fanout
autox 2166879 1372 406 557032
triumphs 1872198 1225 367 449575
mgs 1456842 1018 419 426542
british-cars 1186495 746 365 272290
mini-list 1105243 747 359 268173
Fanout is just the number of messages times the number of members. It is
a rough approximation of how much work the machine has to do to get a copy
of an incoming mail message to all the list members. And you'll note that
the digests for the lists are not included, as they only generate about one
outgoing message per day, though some lists have more digest than regular
subscribers.
mjb.
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