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Re: Internet Backbone Traffic
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> Someone in the past week asserted that, at $1000 a gig, one could store
> all of a year's worth of mail headers from the Internet backbone for under
> ~$8.7 million. (8700 gigs of data, I presume?)
>
> Sorry, I don't remember who it was, but I have some questions:
>
> 1) Where can I find an estimate of the mail volume on the net?
> 2) Are there any projections of internet usage (subscribers, mail users,
> etc.) over the next several years?
>
> I plan on holding an educational session on net legal issues, and I would
> like to point out the $8.7 million/year price tag on a mail header
> archive (scary potentials, to say the least), but I would like some sources to
> back me up if I assert it.
>
> Can anyone help me out? I'd really appreciate it.
> -john.
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> John Blair <[email protected]> phone: (513) 529-4879
> Insert cool signature file that makes a trendy, yet bold and original
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Telnet to internic.net and choose the gopher option. They have statistics
of various types (and all kinds of other misc. info)
-Jim