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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
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: > > >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? > > -- > Requiescas in pace o email > > Ex turpi causa non oritur actio > > http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/ > --- Wayne Bouchard [email protected] Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
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