Re: Where to find accurate number of Usenet Servers?

Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/8/21 6:08 AM, Jason Evans wrote:
>> Here's the top 1000 Usenet servers:
> 
> Even this is predicated on a Usenet server submitting data to the Top 
> 1000 list.
> 
> I'm aware of a number of private news servers that participate in Usenet 
> that don't submit to Top 1000.
> 
> I would not be surprised if it's impossible to accurately list all 
> Usenet servers.

I agree with it being impossible to list all usenet servers but not
participating with top1000 doesn't exclude them from being counted.

If they have no outbound feeds where posted articles on their server just
stay local, ok, that's possible.

But if they have any outbound servers they feed articles to, eventually
their path will be detected and then counted. I guess it depends on what you
mean by "private server". But if it is a truly private server (no outbound
feeds), does that really count as a usenet server?

I mean there are many weird entries on that list:

191	0.089544	iskon
200	0.077523	news
215	0.049966	adore2
234	0.032693	spln

and dozens of others. I really think none of those are really servers, some
kind of article injection reference (end user?) into a server. Still ends up
in the article path so it is still counted I guess.

Plus out of the 1000 shown, 215 of them are *.fidonet.org.ru.

Same thing, I doubt all of those are servers but posts from those nodes are
still counted.

-bruce
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