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Message of Thu,
10 Feb 1994 23:27:55 GMT from LISTSERV give-and-take forum
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On Thu, 10 Feb 1994 23:27:55 GMT "John W. Redelfs"
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>I've noticed that the number of nodes in the PEERS database is down from
>last year, and I know of a number of Listserv lists that are being moved
>to other platforms.
While the number of servers is decreasing, the number of lists and
subscribers, and above all the traffic, keep increasing steadily. Before
the summer there were 3-4 million daily deliveries on an average weekday.
Now it is more like 5-6 million! 5893k on Thursday. The number of
subscriptions has increased by about 500k since 9211. These figures do
take into account the loss of 25 servers over the same period. When you
look at the charts you wouldn't be able to tell when servers left the
network. The only exception is 9402 when most of France left BITNET
without registering a :newnode tag in advance. This was the largest
drop-out in the history of BITNET. All the users got deleted from the
lists since their addresses no longer worked and this caused a visible
drop in the figures.
>Why is this happening?
Many universities are getting rid of mainframes. Some move their lists to
another machine, but in some cases there is no other suitable mainframe
in the university, while in others local politics require the service to
be physically located "in our department" and not "run by the bozos at
the XYZ dept" :-) LISTSERV isn't available for unix yet so people move to
other products, which as you said aren't quite as comprehensive.
Eric
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