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From: hasker@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.games
Message-ID: <7200167@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 01:39:15 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!hasker    Dec  5 13:10:00 1989


Sorry if this has been discussed before, but has anyone actually done a
survey showing that games waste the largest proportion of bandwidth?
(Please, no flames about `waste'; I don't read notes on games, but I don't
believe that means they shouldn't exist in comp.sys.amiga.)  I'd bet
the largest is the frequent postings about where do I get Fish disks or
what is the cheapest memory expansion available.  Someone has been posting
a note regularly saying how to get at an archive containing discussions of
these topics, but new users probably aren't reading this carefully or (more
likely) the info isn't available to them when they finally need it.  The
solution to this is probably more intelligent news systems.  For instance,
I use something called `notes' developed by Ray Essick here at U of Ill
which has a place for a policy note in which something like this common
answers posting could be placed (not that notes is superior to news in
general; it probably isn't).

Rob Hasker			University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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