6 May
2004
6 May
'04
2:53 p.m.
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