Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!aunro!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: BITFTP grief! Message-ID: Date: 21 May 91 02:43:56 GMT References: <1991May20.071452.14045@iguana.uucp> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 56 stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes: >merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes: >> > If you don't want to be a mail server, then stop doing it. >> we want to maintain connectivity, and will continue to do it. > Then expect that, sometimes, the resources you have allocated based >on 'normal' levels of traffic will be insufficient. Don't turn your >limits into limits on the net as a whole. What's "normal?" Well, aunro takes in about 9 MB of news every 24 hours. We feed that out to two full feeds, plus a couple of partial feeds. 30 MB total per day is average for that one machine. On top of that we push about 100 K of mail through. Call it 30 MB/day total. You're telling me that I should configure my system to handle an additional 60 MB burst, for a total daily throughput of 150 MB "just in case" ??? John, you are rapidly becoming an ass. >> >If you don't want to carry mail to or from bitftp, don't do it. >> problem solved. 8^) > To everyone else's detriment. It is not as funny as you think. No, not to everyones detriment. I, for one, will not miss the traffic. There are others who feel the same. Don't be so naive as to think you can speak in absolutes. This also makes you look like an ass. >> end users seem to be really pissed off now that their free ride is over. > Free ride? Are you now paying my bills? Hahahahaha. Your news articles traverse through links that are payed for by the organization I work for. They also travel through links payed for by the Law Society of Upper Canada (aka lsuc). Yes, you dumb ass, I (and others) are paying to ship your postings around the world. Since you don't have a direct connection to every site on usenet, we are paying your bills by saving you a hell of a lot of money EVERY TIME you post something to the net. >> the uucp community of Ontario is about to suffer a very large hit on their >> connectivity. > The entire UUCP community just has, too. More absolutes. Can you back that statement up with any verifiable facts? > Then they will be in for a shock when you offer to handle their mail for >them and then start telling them that they can't use mail. You left off the last part of that sentence. It should have read "can't use mail for large data transfers." -- Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University atha!cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca Packet: ve6bbm@ve6mc.ab.can.noam The only thing open about OSF is their mouth. --Chuck Musciano