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From: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ruminations on bandwidth (big postings, etc.)
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.114422.28810@pmsmam.uucp>
Date: 18 Apr 91 11:44:22 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.020214.21633@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan)
Organization: What, ME Organized?
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Johnny:

Your analysis is very elegant, BUT what about the THOUSANDS of us who are NOT
on the Internet?  Hard as it may be to believe, big bunches of us only have
relatively low speed (2400 baud or even less) telephone connections to some
newsfeed host, perhaps only once or twice a day.

We sure ain't usin' NNTP on a FDDI net :-)

Very large postings can chew up my phone line pretty fast!

For source postings, well I'll live with that since it is MY choice whether or
not to have my upstream feed send me the sources groups.  Even then,
considerate posters (e.g. Larry Wall with the newest version of Perl) keep the
volume down by spreading out the 36 or so pieces over a week or so.


Even then, full postings are rare.  Only when the volume of diffs will exceed
the volume of a new posting will FUBAR_99.74 be released.

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