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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: overflow message in RN
Keywords: rn
Message-ID: <50118@looking.on.ca>
Date: 20 Nov 89 06:02:33 GMT
References: <3678@devon.LNS.PA.US> <1989Nov19.065842.2745@alembic.acs.com>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Lines: 30
Class: humour

In article <1989Nov19.065842.2745@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
>Apply this patch. It works. Given C News message IDs, everyone will need it 
>very soon. It provides a 2k buffer for the references line. This should
>prevent this problem for the next couple of months.

Yeah, I gotta admit I am a bit surprised at this choice in C news.  I
thought the whole idea was that inews was allowed to be slow and do things
like get a sequence number.   Putting in the date (which is already on
the date line) seems a bit wasteful.

And if it adds 16 bytes to each message-id, plus 16 to each followup, and
there are mabye 8000 message-ids referenced or produce on USENET each day,
and the phone company bills about $10/K for USENET traffic.  (And UUNET
perhaps about $0.30 for each K posted to USENET)  So this longer
message-ID bills $1,280 extra per day for the phone company, and $13,000/year
for UUNET.

So I wonder how much AT&T paid Geoff & Henry?

And perhaps Rick is a bigger fan of C news then he lets on, eh?

In case you haven't figured it out, :-), :-)

(Although the numbers are close to real, although it's just a guess on
UUNET, and it assumes everybody ran C news.)

After all, just think what the telcos must be paying me to push for full
References chains!
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473