Some Statistics about size distribution of NetNews

Hi, for the work on mcntp, I did some statistics on the distribution on the sizes of news articles. I achieved this histograms by running some feeds a la

size-all:*:Tf,Wb:

with INN and then running the following Perl-Script over it. You can grab the perl script if you want and run your own statistics. If you do so, then please mail me the results at hwr@pilhuhn.de.

The resuls are:

First run Second run Third run

Collected on 96/11/{09,10} Collected on 96/11/{12-15} Collected on ??????

all.all all.all all.all

alt.* alt.* alt.*

alt.*,!alt.bin* alt.*,!alt.bin* alt.*,!alt.bin*

alt.bin* alt.bin* alt.bin*

comp.* comp.* comp.*

de.* de.* de.*

A Histogram done by Felix Kugler at Swsbe6.switch.ch
A Histogram done by Stefan Mink at news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Please note also that there is a different scaling for different sizes:

Spacing is 50 Bytes for article sizes <5001 Bytes
Spacing is 500 Bytes for article sizes > 5000 Bytes and < 15001 Bytes
Spacing is 5000 Bytes for article sizes > 15000 Bytes

96/11/11 Heiko W.Rupp
Last updated 98/02/26, hwr

First run	Second run	Third run
Collected on 96/11/{09,10}	Collected on 96/11/{12-15}	Collected on ??????
all.all	all.all	all.all
alt.*	alt.*	alt.*
alt.,!alt.bin	alt.,!alt.bin	alt.,!alt.bin
alt.bin*	alt.bin*	alt.bin*
comp.*	comp.*	comp.*
de.*	de.*	de.*