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From: dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Bandwidth Wasters Hall of Fame for news.groups
Message-ID: <137@ark1.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 22 Sep 89 18:48:36 GMT
References: <13748@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
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In article <13748@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>                         BANDWIDTH WASTERS HALL OF FAME
>                                 for articles in
>                           /usr/spool/news/news/groups

Is is worse to waste bandwidth on a given topic or to waste bandwidth
on bandwidth waste?

>   Bytes  Volume  Offending
>  Wasted   Share  Articles     Guilty Party
>
>   98894  17.65%    8  spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)

Right, wasted bytes.

>   29514   5.27%    7  dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)

Only 5%?  I'll have to do better than that. :-)

>    9333   1.67%    1  fink@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Paul fink)
>    9258   1.65%    5  welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

And a rerun after the posting of the Hall of Fame would include:
     9317   1.66%    1  xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
right up there in the Top 20.

>[A shar file of the scripts used to create this article was
>posted to alt.sources by the author, Kent Paul Dolan.]

So we can all waste even more bandwidth posting results and flaming
wastage on other groups?  What's the point, Mr. Dolan?
-- 
Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)