Editing Virtual1's Hotline Server Protocol Guide (section)

===Chapter 5: NOTES===

I have seen many admins and co-admins running around kicking idle
users, saying they are "taking up bandwidth". I was wondering if
this was true, and did some pondering. A user that is completely
idle (no file xfers) by themselves will take zero bandwidth. There
WILL be some bandwidth needed though for each time a user in the
userlist goes idle, goes active, changes nick or icon, leaves,
arrives, or someone posts public chat. Each of these events
requires a task to be sent to every user online, though the amount
of data sent is quite small. (typically only 40 bytes or so) News
posts also go to all users , (even w/o news privs!) and those can be
relatively large in comparison to the other transactions. It sounds
kind of silly, but it is in everyone's best interest that on busy
file-serving server, you should be quiet and use chat only sparingly.
 THE END     I hope this is useful for you!     :-)   - Virtual1
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