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Remailer stats
The following is the result of my own experiments, performed when a) I
started noticing that my remailing times didn't seem to match the ping lists
available and b) another local guy posted a format that seemed useful, so I
swiped it.
I mailed through each of the remailers listed below ten times over the
course of eight days (10 Jan 96 to 18 Jan 96) - posts went out spread across
all hours of the day and night, to compensate for congestion at high-traffic
times. (Insomnia's value as a research aid, coming soon to a major
scientific journal.) Each post went through the remailer, to a nym server,
back through the remailer, and then to me. The trip time is the interval
from the end of a posting session with Eudora and PPP connection to Teleport
to the arrival of a message in my mailbox at Teleport. Times are given in
hours and minutes. "Failure" means that I hadn't gotten a reply back within
four days of posting it.
I anticipate doing this on a monthly basis, and would be delighted to hear
from anyone else doing the same. Joel McNamara has raised the possibility of
a net resource that would feed back the data for whatever region is closet
to the inquirer, which sounds seriously cool to me.
REMAILER PERFORMANCE, MID-JANUARY
FAILURES REMAILER AVG MIN MAX NOTES
0 [email protected] 00:05 00:02 00:18
0 [email protected] 00:06 00:03 00:14
0 [email protected] 00:08 00:02 00:38
0 [email protected] 00:09 00:06 00:12
0 [email protected] 00:09 00:02 00:24
0 [email protected] 00:19 00:03 01:20
0 [email protected] 00:56 00:23 02:38
0 [email protected] 01:35 00:20 05:49
0 [email protected] 02:36 00:23 06:55
0 [email protected] 07:43 00:15 19:54
1 [email protected] 00:31 00:13 01:14
2 [email protected] 00:52 00:14 03:00
8 [email protected] 01:46 01:19 02:13 [1]
8 [email protected] 11:17 03:58 18:36
10 [email protected] ? ? ?
[1] On the 19th or 20th, extropia.wimsey.com suddenly cleared backlog, and
all my messages did go through. So I'll see how it does in February; looks
like they had a week-long weirdness of some kind.
Comments welcome.
Bruce Baugh
[email protected]
http://www.teleport.com/~bruceab