Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: trash message from usenet (BIFF)
Message-ID: <454@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 90 07:08:44 GMT
References: <9006011234.AA22023@monk.proteon.com> <9006011556.AA23309@sonny.proteon.com> <3142@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1990Jun2.033607.9779@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <1990Jun2.033607.9779@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
}Gee, the funny thing is, few of us on the Usenet side were 
}bothered by this lid. Why? A responsible net_citizen cancelled
}all the garbage before most people saw it. It's a pity your
}maillist software won't handle cancels; then you would not have
}been annoyed either. Maybe you should fix it. ;-} 

The other funny thing is that slightly more than half the traffic originates
on this side of the fence. I just did a simple straw poll, out of 88
articles in /usr/spool/news/comp/protocols/tcp-ip, only 34 had originated
from "The Internet".


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