I do not react to server submissions (at [email]servers@mirc.com)[/email] if no reaction is needed. Only if I need additional info I ask for it or reply with the rather obvious default reaction to incomplete or otherwise lacking submissions. I do not confirm submissions. With the loads(!) of mail I recieve regarding the servers list there is no other way for me to handle them. No worries - when you recieve no reaction there normally is nothing wrong. And when you fear your email is lots I will not complain over a second submission, or a third. (but better not trigger my spam scripts, ok?)
I think discussing DALnet's server entries at the moment makes no sense at all. We dont need no research to know DALnet is in trouble. I think they deserve a little credit, ok? A lot of credit...
Apart from DALnet I'll try to answer your questions;
The reason for
my little website thingy saying "At the moment I can not add more then the random server (round robbin) of new networks" has been discussed quite a lot before; the servers.ini is limited to about 32Kb, about 450 entries. Within that limited space I try to squeeze at least one server of every network available, stable, populated and reachable by -me-, preferably a round robbin. Only the large old networks have, often from a historical perspective, more servers in the list. Several very large newer ones also have a few more servers in the list.
There is room for about 450 entries, the list holds about 300 networks. Your network is competing with about 15 others in the 1200 users range... There are at least 40 larger networks. 10 of them are at least 10 times as large
. I hope this demonstrates how I try to balance things a bit, and I think I do quite well, without having to spent half my day on calculations and statistics?
