Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: RS%AI.AI.MIT.EDU@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Robert E. Seastrom) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Master List of Internet Users Available Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 89 17:40:13 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 35 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 426, message 1 of 8 > To obtain your copy -- > > telnet 128.146.1.5 4666| tail +4| compress > userlist.z ... > Allow about a minute for the full transmission! It is a file... This is antisocial behavior of the worst kind! Blowing UNCOMPRESSED data across the network only to compress it on your end and then have to uncompress it again to read it will do two things: 1) It will eat a bit of CPU time on your machine. If you're on a single user workstation, then you aren't taking anyone else's cycles and that's fine. But if you are on a general-use timesharing system (like your organization's main VAX or something like that), you're bogging down system response for other users. 2) YOU ARE SENDING A LARGE AMOUNT OF UNCOMPRESSED DATA OVER A PUBLIC NETWORK. This will have detrimental effects on others who are using the network for telnets and FTPs. The explosive growth of the Internet over the past several years has made it well neigh impossible for the people who run NSFnet and the regionals to keep up with demand for network bandwidth. Don't make matters worse by capriciously moving large amounts of data over the Internet without compressing it first. There is no inherent benefit to sending a large file by telnet over sending it via FTP. I urge whoever is making this list available to the public to COMPRESS it, make it available for FTP, and have a mailbox set up so that people can send their information if they want to be included. I urge readers of TELECOM to NOT retrieve this file until it can be retrieved in a matter that is more considerate of others. ---R.E. Seastrom