Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

[kaih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kai Henningsen)]

richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Clayton)  wrote on 21.08.05 in <jr6LcRfMrKCDFARx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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.
>
> The algorithm was to start from 'news.maxwell.syr.edu' and see if any
> article arrived that had been given any articles by this machine. If so
> then they were added to the core and a check made to see if there were
> now other machines to which articles had been given...  iterate.
>
> Looking now at those 2556 servers -- which are, at least from my vantage
> point, somewhat more important than the rest -- I find that 218 of them
> have chosen to use an identity that is a bare word, and I'd say that
> half of those look to be UUCP names.

To get an impression of how fully you saw the periphery of the net, can  
you tell me how many (or which) westfalen.de machines you found?

MfG Kai