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[faq-maintainers] 73 terabytes per year....

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From: Ping Huang (pshuang@alum.mit.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 24 2000 - 12:19:50 CST

There have been various threads on this email list on whether Usenet
is relevant any more, given the Web. An interesting study can be
found at the Web site:

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/

The study's estimate is that in 2000, there were 11,285 terabytes of
email (610 billion messages), 73 terabytes of Usenet postings, and 21
terabytes of static HTML pages (2.1 billion pages, not counting Web
pages generated on the fly from underlying databases). However, no
word on how much of those 73 terabytes of Usenet postings are spam....

An excellent quote from one of the sources for the study:

"Communication, not content, is king."

Andrew Odlyzko.
Content is not king.
Technical report, AT&T Labs, 2000.
http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/networks.html

IMO, FAQ's straddle the two categories, as they are largely content
created based on the history of communication on the topic.... 

-- 
Ping Huang <pshuang@alum.mit.edu>; info: http://web.mit.edu/pshuang/.plan
	Disclaimer: unless explicitly otherwise stated, my
	statements represent my personal viewpoints only.

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