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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: The Jargon File v2.8.1, 22 MAR 1991, part 4 of 19
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Date: 25 Mar 91 14:53:37 GMT
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In article <3586@polari.UUCP> bruceki@polari.UUCP (Bruce King) writes:
>  This complete waste of network resources brought to you by ERIC.

In your humble opinion, of course.

>  WHY CAN'T YOU FIGURE OUT FTP SITES ERIC?  

Not everyone has access to FTP.

>  POST A NOTE LIKE THIS:
>  "If you're interested in helping to edit the jargon file, mail me and
>I'll mail you a copy of the jargon file, or get it from anonymous ftp
>site..."

Not everyone has access to FTP. Mailing multiple copies of an 888,333 byte
file would use up far more network resources than his posting; I fully expect
that there are more than the 100 or so readers that make a newsgroup a viable
proposition.

>  SAVE BANDWIDTH AND STOP FOLKS FROM NOT CARRYING THE ALT HEIRARCHY
>DUE TO VOLUME PROBLEMS.  Sure, you're only a percent or so over a few
>days, but this applies to all "bandwidth is free" uses.  You just happen
>to be the most blatant example of waste.  

Bwahahahahah. Hahahaha. Hee hee. Haw!

Many more sites don't carry the alt hierarchy because of bandwidth wastes
(IMHO) such as alt.sex.pictures and alt.romance.chat - which soak up about
100 times the bandwidth of Eric's jargon file postings - than because of
alt.folklore.computers.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
  "You can even run GNUemacs under X-windows without paging if you allow
          about 32MB per user." -- Bill Davidsen  "Oink!" -- me