On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:33:43AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I fail to see where you get this idea of this stupidity costing SLUG so
> much.
>
> 1 1.63Mb email inbound = $0.30 at $0.19/mb
> 400 1.63Mb emails outbound = zip, zero, zilch (no backchannel charges
> assumed)
Umm.. No.
TCP/IP is a two-way protocol. The overhead in the reverse direction varies
based on what is being sent, but varies between about 10% and 30%.
If we work on a mid-ground of 20%, that gives 400x1.63x20% == 130 megs of
traffic _inbound_ to the slug server, which gives it a real cost (although
it is less than below).
And of course, what goes out always comes back in again somewhere else,
which means that SLUG members collectively forked out probably over $100
for this one message (remember that some people pay by the meg, some by the
hour, some flat rate).
Scott
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, DaZZa wrote:
> >
> > You just cost the kind person who runs the SLUG list 400 x 1600k {total
> > encoded filesize} in bandwidth - at between 12 and 19 cents per meg,
> > depending on where they buy the bandwidth from.
> >
> > That's 640000k, or 640 meg - somewhere between $76 and $122.
> >
> > I'm sure they'll be suitably apreciative.
> >
> > DaZZa - not mentioning the people who had to download a 1.6 meg message
> > over a 28k8 dialup line.
>
>
>
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