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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Commercial news feeds?
Message-ID: <2545@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 23:26:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 23:26:04 1984
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When uucp (and large enough disks) start proliferating in the micro world,
I think the demand for news feeds will be much less of a problem than handling
the sheer volume of traffic it will generate.  The last time I looked,
the news volume was about 5Mb/week, which takes a substantial fraction
of the overnight hours to receive and redistribute at 1200 baud.
When Waterloo first joined USENET about 2.5 years ago, the volume was
maybe 1Mb/week.  Ordinary growth of the network among primarily "large"
(multi-user) sites has resulted in this increase in traffic;  I hate to
think of what will happen when large numbers of micros get on the net.