[geeks] Question...

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Corporate sponserships would be fine.  Why is 500megs a day such a
problem?  I do it fairly frequently at home/school/work and they never
seem to notice.  Heck, the other week, I checked the log at home and found
that my family had transfered 2 gigs in 36hours.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> (asking geeks and rescue about this because I know you guys will
>  give me good opinions)
> 
> Would you guys object to a short 1 or 2-line sponsorship message
> at the bottom of each email from the rescue/geeks/sunhelp lists?
> 
> I'm asking because I *might* do that in case I have to start paying
> more for bandwidth soon - I did some mail stats and they're a lot 
> larger than what I thought I was doing.  Here's the past 12 hours:
> 
> Postfix log summaries for May 24
> 
> Grand Totals
> ------------
> messages
> 
>    2499   received
>   62425   delivered
>      40   forwarded
>     648   deferred  (2611  deferrals)
>       8   bounced
>       3   rejected
> 
>   11684k  bytes received
>  224367k  bytes delivered
>     179   senders
>     128   sending hosts/domains
>    3811   recipients
>    2764   recipient hosts/domains
> 
> Per-Hour Traffic Summary
>     time          received  delivered   deferred    bounced     rejected
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------
>     0000-0100          64       1058         58          0          0 
>     0100-0200          87       1715        232          0          1 
>     0200-0300          34        529        195          0          0 
>     0300-0400         372       6873        248          0          0 
>     0400-0500         166       9135        213          0          0 
>     0500-0600          75       1362        229          0          0 
>     0600-0700          94       2483        266          0          0 
>     0700-0800         160       3762        151          0          0 
>     0800-0900         273       6784        232          1          0 
>     0900-1000         294       8256        252          1          1 
>     1000-1100         429       8340        292          2          0 
>     1100-1200         389      11474        239          4          1 
>     1200-1300          62        654          4          0          0 
> 
> That means I'm doing at *least* 500 megabytes/day of nothing but email
> traffic - in addition to about 5 gigabytes/month of web traffic.  That
> means that this machine is pushing quite a bit of bandwidth.  I may not
> be pushing 10megabits, but its consistent, and it adds up...  Right now I
> get a discounted colocation price from my ISP in exchange for system admin
> work and referrals (I used to be their head admin).
> 
> Thoughts?  I'm not in immediate danger of having to start charging for
> things (that would be the last thing I would do - I'd shut the site
> down if I had to do that), but if I have to start paying more for 
> bandwidth, corporate sponsorships of the lists might be an option.
> 
> I'd just like to get your opinions..
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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