[94359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sat Jan 20 18:39:01 2007
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:38:06 -0600 (CST)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
Cc: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>,
Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>, booloo@ucsc.edu,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480701201336x687e749cjf7d2c20a3638e7d0@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
> Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA
>
> > Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule").
> > With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I
> > would predict something closer to
> > 10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not
> > that unrealistic.
> >
> > I would predict that these sorts of distributions will continue as
> > long as humans are the primary consumers of
> > bandwidth.
> >
> > Regards
> > Marshall
> >
>
> That's until the spambots inherit the world, right?
>
That is if you see a distinction, metaphorical or physical, between
spambots and real users.
