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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: misuse of net.sources?
Message-ID: <223@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 05:10:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 12 05:10:52 1984
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Greetings.  I've been watching the various data being sent through
net.sources lately, and I'm beginning to wonder if a certain amount
of misuse (note that I'm not saying "abuse") is taking place.

In particular, I am concerned that rather specialized and voluminous
materials, likely to be of interest to a relatively small number
of individuals, are being posted.  When a person receives
"several" or "a few" requests for information, it might be better
to consider using direct mail for distribution to those persons, rather
than spending bundles of money delivering to sites which are likely
to not particularly care about that item.

Perhaps a rule of thumb might be that "large" (say, larger than
25K byte) files should only be posted if they are (a) of general
interest to the network community or (b) a large number of requests
for the materials have been received.

Just a suggestion.

--Lauren--