William B. Norton wrote:
For those who say things like "can't define 'junk' precisely", I would
agree, but I think we also can agree that we all have a general idea
of what junk is. Just looking for round #'s really. It isn't 0%, and
it isn't 90% (although it seems that way sometimes).
I would also agree that it would be valuable for the community to
track this # over time. You can't manage it if you can't measure it.
There is also a lot of "background Internet radiation" coming from p2p
applications which seem to remember their peers for a week or two. These
usually account for most of the unidirectional traffic knocking on doors
unanswered. (not counting large DDoS).
Pete