Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:11:17AM -0700, Chin Fang wrote:
> >
> > I have a strong suspicision as of now, based on some casual snoop
> > output reviews, that POP traffic is consuming about 30% of the total
> > email bandwidth usage.
>
> Unless people have forwards to more than 1 address, logic dictates that
> POP3 should be at least 50% of your traffic.
This strikes me as a ``Profile. Don't speculate.'' moment. ``Logic''
might argue instead that 30% is about right: one might expect roughly
equal volumes of incoming SMTP, outgoing SMTP, and POP traffic, assuming
no mailing list servers.
The moral: measuring is better.
Len.
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