On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:09:47PM -0400, Len Budney wrote:
> Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:11:17AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a strong suspicision as of now, based on some casual snoop
> > > output reviews, that POP traffic is consuming about 30% of the total
> > > email bandwidth usage.
> >
> > Unless people have forwards to more than 1 address, logic dictates that
> > POP3 should be at least 50% of your traffic.
>
> This strikes me as a ``Profile. Don't speculate.'' moment. ``Logic''
Correct. I am speculating :)
> might argue instead that 30% is about right: one might expect roughly
> equal volumes of incoming SMTP, outgoing SMTP, and POP traffic, assuming
> no mailing list servers.
I'd expect incoming to be equal to the sum of outgoing and POP, assuming any
address is either a forward or a popbox.
> The moral: measuring is better.
Always.
Greetz, Peter.
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