>It would be interesting to have a rating, where you are rated
>amongst others with your same connectivity.  Most of the Freenix top100
>are T3's/10MBps people.  Then you have your multihomed 3-6Mbps people,
>then your t1's etc.  I bet we would do very well compared with other T1
>ISP's.
>
>But maybe that's asking for something unrealistic.  I mean you could split 
>hairs and be rated against "others running dual pentiums, on linux, with inn".  

• "Excellent" performance is 95% or better in most heirarchies.
  
  If you are doing that level of performance in most heirarchies consistently, then you
  probably have an adequate system. Variations in performance, or missing a few percent
  of articles are likely due to occasional spam articles getting into the sample newsgroups.
  
  Servers in this category are consistently above 3.5 GPA.
  
  
• "Good" performance is 87% or better.
  This generally means that there is something that needs to be tuned or upgraded to
  get the rest. Unfortunately this can mean hardware investment. You may wish to
  consider handling alt.binaries* differently so that it does not impact the rest of the
  newsgroups on your server.
  
  It may also mean poor availability of the server or network bandwidth. If your server
  is down 2 hours a day, then you can rank here. If you only have one decent peer, then
  you are probably here.
  
  Servers in this category are around 3.0 GPAs
  
  
• "Poor" performance is less than 75%. GPA's 2.5 or lower.
  Well there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that whatever
  problem you have is probably major, and once you fix it you will see a big jump
  in performance. You most likely have a misconfigured system and a software
  or config change will fix it assuming you have a decent disk and memory setup.
  
  The bad news is that even when you fix it, you may end up in the "good" performance
  range, not "excellent." And moving from there requires investment of more than just
  time. But first things first: find your biggest bottleneck(s) and eliminate them.
  
  The first reaction is to think that poor performance has something to do with spam. Read
  the other topics in this RKT to dissuade yourself from that.