Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!lll-winken!cs!huxley!jxxl From: jxxl@huxley (John Locke) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Flames Message-ID: <733@cs.nps.navy.mil> Date: 24 Jan 90 18:19:54 GMT References: <15112@bfmny0.UU.NET> Sender: news@cs.nps.navy.mil Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA Lines: 9 Okay. How many flames does it take to equal the resource consumption of one 60K posting in comp.mail.maps, or a pair of 50K postings to comp.binaries.apple2? These are just a few examples of tremendous resource consumers that are of marginal utility here. Not that I'm suggesting canning them. I'm sure someone, somewhere needs this stuff. And we don't have a problem storing it. But I can't believe that flames have that big an impact. Obviously, if people are replying to them, people are reading them. Interaction is the key draw of the USENET.