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From: gtoye@supernet.dallas.haus.com (Gene Toye)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: The Jargon File v2.8.1, 22 MAR 1991, part 4 of 19
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.144858.29011@supernet.dallas.haus.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 14:48:58 GMT
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bruceki@polari.UUCP (Bruce King) writes:


>  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.  

I have been following the Jargon file debate for some time and am now
wondering what people like Mr. King think we should be posting.  If 
everyone stops and says "Well, this will eat a percent or two of bandwidth,
so I better not post it" what will end up being posted?

I am at a USENET site so ftp-ing a file still results in somebody 
stuffing the file through a modem connection to me via the courtesy of bitftp
(thanks Princeton!!!).  Same for mail servers.  I am wondering how many
people are saving the file as posted.  If enough are doing so, it seems that
a single posing is more net-effecient than mutiple copied being mailed out
to fulfill individual requests for the file.
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