On Tue, 05 Aug 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in
article <dF5mk.17978$jI5.8913@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com>, clay wrote:

>Apparently (whoever) my ISP (is contracting with) feels compelled to
>retain even less of this group than a.o.l.u. Over two months over
>there, ~two weeks here...

If the headers are to be believed, it's sbc.com, who now masquerades
as att.com. As for numbers, my logs show 496 articles in c.o.l.n (of
which 36 hit my killfile) and 3670 in a.o.l.u (with 1660 hitting the
killfile) since 30 June at 15:00 UTC. Seems unusual that they're
cutting retention on this group.

>And they've dropped the binary groups too.

Do you realize how much money that's saving them? ;-) In another
group that I follow, someone was able to show that some number of
..*\.bina.* (giganews carries 7700 groups fitting that regex) was
using three times the bandwidth of non-binary groups. Hard to say.

>Well, I'm glad I stumbled in. Learned more about ports in the last
>day than since I've been playing with these computer things.
>Tried netstat -anptu soon as I got home last night, curious to see
>who's peeking in. Got a page of stuff. Mostly my two boxes chatting
>with themselves or each other. Thunderbird and ssh listening and
>that's about it.

Downright chatty little rascals, aren't they?

>Now to rtfm and learn what it all means.

[compton ~]$ whatis ps pstree
ps (1) - report process status
pstree (1) - display a tree of processes
[compton ~]$

When trying to chase down processes, either pstree or 'ps afuwx'
can be helpful in trying to figure out how a process got started.

Old guy