From: jdwilson@gold.chem.hawaii.edu (Jim Wilson (VA))
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 93 16:41:04 PST
To: jdblair@nextsrv.cas.muohio.EDU
Subject: Re: Internet Backbone Traffic
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> 
> Someone in the past week asserted that, at $1000 a gig, one could store
> all of a year's worth of mail headers from the Internet backbone for under 
> ~$8.7 million. (8700 gigs of data, I presume?)
> 
> Sorry, I don't remember who it was, but I have some questions:
> 
> 1) Where can I find an estimate of the mail volume on the net?
> 2) Are there any projections of internet usage (subscribers, mail users,
> etc.) over the next several years?
> 
> I plan on holding an educational session on net legal issues, and I would
> like to point out the $8.7 million/year price tag on a mail header
> archive (scary potentials, to say the least), but I would like some sources to
> back me up if I assert it.
> 
> Can anyone help me out?  I'd really appreciate it.
> -john.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John Blair <jdblair@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu>              phone: (513) 529-4879
>     Insert cool signature file that makes a trendy, yet bold and original
>    statement about my cyberspace proficiency, then mentions that I'll send
>    you my PGP public key if you want it, and you trust that I'm actually me.
> 
> 
> 
Telnet to internic.net and choose the gopher option.  They have statistics
of various types (and all kinds of other misc. info)

 -Jim