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From: toby@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Toby Harness)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Personal netnodes?
Message-ID: <490@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 13:53:34 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 16 13:53:34 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 04:41:53 EDT
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Reply-To: toby@gargoyle.UUCP (Toby Harness)
Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science
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Summary: 

In article <> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
>Let's restrict the discussion.... In this sense, the net is nothing more 
>than a large version of a BBS or Compuserve.
>
>Let's say that one of these people suddenly finds himself cut from the net.
>(gets a job at a non-UNIX shop, site becomes mail-only, etc.) It is not
>unreasonable for this person to go out, buy a 7300 or an XT running XENIX,
>find himself a feed, and have a few groups forwarded to him.
>
>This scenario was what I originally intended to discuss. If nothing else,
>a large number of such sites would tend to increase the load on the sites
>feeding them.

You`re the sa for a Usenet site.  Someone asks you for a feed to his personal
machine.  News is running what, something like 40 megabytes a week?  Even 
a fraction of that is a lot of traffic.  So what do you do first?  You offer
him/her/it a login on your machine to read news.  If you can`t give a login
id to this person, then you probably shouldn`t give them a uucp connection.

Toby Harness		Ogburn/Stouffer Center, University of Chicago
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