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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: benefit/cost
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Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 14:53:45 EST
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Bandwidth, even over the satellite, is definitely not unlimited.  
For example, as much spare time as possible needs to be filled with
repeating messages for error correction and for good ECC codes
if possible.  With a broadcast satellite transmission system, you can't just
NAK a packet if you didn't receive it properly.  Without optimum
use of the bandwidth (for example, deleting the 50 different messages which
answer the same question in the same way or make the same request over and 
over) there will be bandwidth problems as the net grows.  People who insist
on inserting entire messages into their replies, in cases where this 
really isn't necessary, represent a similar potential problem.

--Lauren--