[OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, October 10, 2011 09:45 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 09:16 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Monday, October 10, 2011 04:56 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 11:43 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>> On 10/ 9/11 11:37 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
>>>>> I haven't looked in recent years, but the last time I did look, port 25,
>>>>> not port 80, was responsible for the lions share of Internet traffic.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that's been true for many years.   Last I heard, YouTube&
>>>> Netflix dominated the bandwidth.
>>>
>>> So yeah, Alan, you snipped my after thought were I corrected myself.  So
>>> let's factor out streaming media.  Then, I think, smtp would still be
>>> quite large proportion.
>>
>> And how much of that bandwidth is spam? That might bring down the
>> numbers for smtp versus http.
>
>
> Doesn't really matter when you factor in banner ads associated with
> http.  The glory days of the internet being populated by academics is
> history.
>
>

True that. I don't hit forums or even nntp nowadays. If I do go to a 
forum, it is because it is the only choice available. That push thing 
about mailing lists is a winner. But it does show a segmentation of the 
community - end users/system administrators.