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From: davisp@marina.CWRU.EDU (Palmer Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bandwidth Wasters Hall of Fame for comp.arch
Summary: My God, man, have you no sense of decency?
Keywords: massive flame, green fuzzy bananas
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Date: 23 Sep 89 03:11:01 GMT
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Reply-To: davisp@marina.skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (Palmer Davis)
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In article <13744@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>                         BANDWIDTH WASTERS HALL OF FAME
>                                 for articles in
>                            /usr/spool/news/comp/arch
>                          Thu Sep 21 20:03:49 PDT 1989
>
>   Bytes  Volume  Offending
>  Wasted   Share  Articles     Guilty Party
>
> [ incredibly long, wasteful, and inane commentary on people's net usage ]
>

This is the second newsgroup I've read today upon which you have inflicted 
this mindless drivel.  For all your self-righteous posturing about wasters of
bandwidth, your ENORMOUS postings of irrelevant, misleading, and utterly
useless information are costing hundreds of sites across the continent (Thank
GOD you didn't send this worldwide!  The Australians would have had you shot!)
thousands of dollars in transmission and storage costs.  How can you so
irresponsibly abuse such a valuable resource?

>(Sorry, if you posted from more than one site, you got more
>than one entry.  It's unavoidable; think about it!  But even
>though your subtotals look smaller, we know who you are!)

As Tanto said to the Lone Ranger when the Apaches started attacking, "What you
mean 'we,' paleface?"  IMHO, the articles I've seen posted from the gentlemen 
you've impugned have been relevant, to the point, and quite instructive to an
undergraduate Comp. E. major like me.  This is, in fact, the REASON we HAVE
Usenet -- to exchange information and views!

An outraged

  -- Palmer Davis --


Palmer T. Davis                  |  The opinions expressed herein are my own
Case Western Reserve University  |  and do not necessarily represent the truth.
davisp@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu    |  Flame away to your heart's content.