Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <jr6LcRfMrKCDFARx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Clayton <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>BTW: Usenet is not all that big -- I identified 2556 servers as being
>part of a "peering core" (from my vantage point). The other 8500
>machines were merely feeding into that core.

Interesting figures. The 2556 peering core is much as expected (I would
have guessed somewhat more than that), but the other 8500 feeding sites is
way below (I would have guessed something more like 100,000).

If Usenet really is that small, then persuading the great bulk of servers
to upgrade to our new standard on a shortish timescale becomes almost a
feasible proposition (as opposed to persuading all the user agents, of
which there must be many millions).

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