Warp wrote:

>   But remember that 90% of SMTP traffic is spam. Take all the regular
> SMTP traffic and multiply it by 10, and you might get a good figure of
> how much the SMTP protocol is really used.

My point exactly.

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> It certainly was, by about 5:1, maybe 5 years ago.
> 
> And in 1992 or so, the USA phone company's traffic on Mother's Day
> carried more bits than an entire year's worth of internet backbone traffic.
> 
> Of course, stuff changes fast, with web mail and VoIP and cell phones
> and such, so it's hard to say how much that counts nowadays.
> 

...and Youtube.

Seriously, video sharing has surely made a big traffic to the Internet
in the past 5 years. P2P is another one which surely has had a huge growth.

-Aero

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Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> Seriously, video sharing has surely made a big traffic to the Internet
> in the past 5 years.

  Btw, which protocol does youtube and other online video sharing apps
use, at the topmost level, to transfer the video material?

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
> 
>   Btw, which protocol does youtube and other online video sharing apps
> use, at the topmost level, to transfer the video material?
> 

AFAIK the video from Youtube itself comes over HTTP (at least youtube-dl
leeches it over HTTP).

-Aero

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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Seriously, video sharing has surely made a big traffic to the Internet
> in the past 5 years. P2P is another one which surely has had a huge growth.

True, true.  It used to be people would post a kilobyte of text giving their 
comments on something to a newsgroup. Now people post a five minute video of 
them sitting in their bedroom reading their kilobyte of text out loud. Sheesh.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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