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Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Adventure Log
Message-ID: <426@magic.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 13:07:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 13:07:06 1985
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> FLAME ON
> 	PLEASE do not send anymore of these Chronicles to the net. Not
> 	everybody wants to read them. For us in Europe the price
> 	of trans-atlantic phone calls is not funny. Other systems may
> 	not be as crunched for space as us but I am sure this sort of
> 	thing isn't appreciated.
> FLAME OFF

      I would like to point out that have mailing lists that extend to 
      Europe do not make the cost of transmitting Chronicles any cheaper,
      in fact, it can only cost just as much as sending it via netnews.
      After all, it costs x cents to send y bits over a X-Atlantic link
      no matter what it is, mail or news.  Actually, unless carefully done, mail
      can cost lots more because of duplications (one separate copy for each
      recipient on a mailing list).  And with netnews one doesn't have
      to mess with the overhead of maintaining a mailing list in the
      first place.  I think netnews is the only proper tool for these kinds of
      publications.  The flamer can use the 'n' key and expire frp news
      faster if disk space is a problem.  This group accounts for very little
      of overall netnews traffic and people here should feel free to publish
      whatever they want, just as the folks in net.auto, net.music, etc., do.

      b2
      {backbone}!bellcore!lust!b2