Fuer die immer schon mal gefragt haben mal die grossen news hierarchien ..... calculated at: Mon Aug 30 00:00:07 MET DST 1999 Articles Volume avg_size avg_del Hierarchy count % Mbytes % kbps kB hours alt 369880 59.26 46560.59586.62 4311.12 125.880 0.51 junk 41244 6.61 6395.12811.90 592.13 155.056 1.18 rec 40287 6.45 76.843 0.14 7.11 1.907 0.60 [...] comp 12172 1.95 24.410 0.05 2.26 2.005 0.92 [...] de 11125 1.78 80.932 0.15 7.49 7.275 2.06 fido7 9576 1.53 23.598 0.04 2.19 2.464 8.35 soc 8421 1.35 22.634 0.04 2.10 2.688 0.83 [...] news 6659 1.07 53.404 0.10 4.94 8.020 0.05 [...] microsoft 6179 0.99 10.974 0.02 1.02 1.776 0.68 [...] misc 3848 0.62 9.075 0.02 0.84 2.358 1.12 sci 3367 0.54 7.975 0.01 0.74 2.369 0.86 [...] z-netz 796 0.13 1.465 0.00 0.14 1.841 3.50 [...] linux 608 0.10 1.436 0.00 0.13 2.362 1.26 [...] muc 515 0.08 1.455 0.00 0.13 2.825 2.92 [...] fido 311 0.05 0.506 0.00 0.05 1.627 7.06 [...] Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice