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From: davel@vision.UUCP (Dave Lockwood)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Images news group
Message-ID: <851@vision.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 89 12:48:33 GMT
References: <44516@sgi.sgi.com>
Reply-To: davel@vision.UUCP (Dave Lockwood)
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
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In article <44516@sgi.sgi.com> paul@manray.sgi.com (Paul Haeberli) writes:
>Its interesting to compare traffic on comp.graphics to net.sources.unix:
>
>	comp.sources.unix:     ~317000 bytes per day.
>	comp.graphics: 		~37836 bytes per day.
>

If it hasn't already been suggested (if it has, I probably lost it in my
{sci|comp|rec|talk}.aquari{um|a|eaux|as} :-), this group (which has my
support) should be moderated; Rich does a _fine_ job with comp.sources.unix
setting a self-imposed bandwidth limitation. Exactly the same could be done
here. Also, leaf sites could sys-file it out if they don't want it, and
backbone(-ish) sites could simply rebatch forward and not store locally other
than for the duration of the transmission.

BTW, what's an aquarium? :-}


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