It might be interesting to get a sense of percentages of traffic that are "undesireable" (spam, DDOS, etc), "administrative" (logging, snmp, rmon, etc), and "user traffic". On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:35:09PM -0500, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:

William B. Norton wrote:

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With all the spam, infected e-mails, DOS attacks, ultimately blackholed traffic, etc. I wonder if there has been a study that quantifies

What percentage of the Internet traffic is junk?

I don't know the answer in any case, but I would need a definition for "Internet traffic" before I could even start.

Do we include the image and tabular date to and from the EROS Data Center? How about the radiographic images and resulting "readings" (or what ever the correct term is) to and from the hospital in Atkinson? Credit card transactions at FDR?

I have a morbid fascination with weather so I am forever looking at maps, satellite images, and all sorts of stuff that some people tell me is a waste of my time, so I presume that is "junk"

What are we talking about?

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On 5/5/04 2:41 PM, "Brent Van Dussen" <vandusb@attens.com> wrote:

One mans junk is another mans treasure :)

-Brent

At 11:21 AM 5/5/2004, William B. Norton wrote:

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With all the spam, infected e-mails, DOS attacks, ultimately blackholed traffic, etc. I wonder if there has been a study that quantifies

What percentage of the Internet traffic is junk?

Bill

Once we can determine what percentage of nanog-l traffic is junk, we can start to tackle the bigger question :) -- Daniel Golding Network and Telecommunications Strategies Burton Group