From: Brent D Miller [brentdmiller@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:13 AM
To: jkuefler@yahoo.com; jkuefler@ridgeware.com; rekdiebboll@yahoo.com
Subject: data

At a glance, the attached data appears sensitive, so please treat
it as such.

Here are some stats, verbatim as sent from a Bloomberg engineer named Mohan:
>Brent, following stats (one single day) might be helpful for your system design.
>
> TOTAL HEADERS:         11215211
> BB STYLE:              5492704 (48.98%)
> INET STYLE:            1776703 (15.84%) *
> INTERNET INCOMING:     801540 (7.15%)
> INTERNET OUTGOING:     3144256 (28.04%)
> TOTAL BB RECIPIENTS:   40619546 (86.81%)
> TOTAL INET RECIPIENTS: 6173803 (13.19%)
> MSGS READ:             5131758 (63.58%) **
> RECIPIENTS READ:       9691071 (20.71%)
> RECIPIENTS DELETED:    1904375 (4.07%)
> RECIPIENTS PURGED:     135962 (0.29%)
> RETRACTED:             36523 (0.33%)
> HIDDEN:                3054841 (27.24%)
> SENDER DELETED:        47539 (0.42%)
> SENDER PURGED:         63957 (0.57%)
>
> *  Internet style messages sent within Bloomberg
>
> ** Number of messages read by atleast one Bloomberg recipient. Calculation does
> not include outgoing internet messages.

That should give you an idea of the breakdown between internet/smtp (INET) and
proprietary Bloomberg messages (BB).

Brent