[Popcon-developers] Estimating HTTP vs SMTP submissions (Was: Please review new description and question text)

[allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr (Bill Allombert)]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > So my guess is that 35% of the submissions are received over HTTP.
> 
> I ment to say 'at least 35%' here.
> 
> I had a look in the other log file (access.log.1) as well, and there
> 6208 submissions were registered between 2006-07-16 09:46 -0600 and
> 2006-07-23 09:57 -0600.  That would be around 44% of all submissions
> if we ignore machines reporting in several times a week.  I guess at
> lot of submissions will be received today as it is sunday, so the log
> for this week will probably show a comparable number by the end of the
> day.

My estimate, according to the 'new-popcon-result' file for sunday:
We received 8453 non-spam reports, 4175 of which being sent through
the CGI script, which is 49% of the total.

So we get concording numbers.

Cheers,
Bill.