I find it interesting how far Usenet has fallen that me posting a few random posts in a few newsgroups over the last few weeks makes it that my private server all of a sudden is one of the top 150 Usenet servers:
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120 0.546275 local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com
121 0.526391 news.usenet.ovh
122 0.522859 wilderland.ovh
123 0.496498 f4441.n5020
124 0.473145 f8912.n5020
125 0.472186 f278.n5010
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Honestly there isn’t anyone but me who uses this server as such, besides one more person who is connected via uucp links (but I haven’t seen him post anything lately).
The Usenet top1000 are a rather old tradition, to the point that the package to take part is in various Linux repositories: it simply counts how often a particular server shows up in posts seen by various servers and calculates how much of the whole message network it makes up.
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