I wonder how many messages get posted on usenet, per second.

I figure, the people at the help desk would know.

 

If it's statistics you're after, take a look here:
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/

But don't expect to get "by the second" accounts!

 

i have no idea really
there are a lot of usenet groups...
some quite active...others pretty dead

i'll take a wild guess and say 150 / second (just to get things started)

 

There used to be a tally kept at Remarq. It was around 750 000 messages a
day in 2001, that's 500 a minute.

 

That would barely cover the 'test' messages.

 

I would figure, over a million messages have been posted, from, 3:08,
the time this message was posted, and 3:22, the time marked, that you
replyed.

 

How do you figure that?

 

I can't give you that figure, but news server operators say that a FILTERED
full newsfeed (that is, the spam and repetitious crap sliced out)
approaches a terabyte a day. The vast majority of those are binary postings
which are fairly large (on the order of 30K-50K each), so you can do a
little math and come up with a highly imprecise figure from that.

 

Take a look at this version of a usenet report.

http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/treemap/

Looks like some programmer had nothing better to do one week.