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From: frank@aaec.OZ (Frank Crawford)
Newsgroups: net.lan,net.news
Subject: Re: words to live by
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 00:51:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 19 00:51:49 1985
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> +------[from net.lan <740@utcs.UUCP>]---------
> |        "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a
> | 	station wagon full of tapes."
> | - some wise words from
> | 	Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS
> +---------------
> 
> Lest this be considered totally a joke, though it is humorous, has anybody
> thought about sending USENET traffic via magtape and FedEx? How does it
> compare to your phone bill? What is the effect on latency? What is the
> effect on Stargate? ;-} I mean, with traffic still under a meg a day,
> and with special delivery letters at $2-3 each (depending on weight),
> we could USnail FLOPPIES and still win! And you don't have to worry about
> your disks filling up while you're on vacation! Your mailbox will hold WEEKS
> of floppies! ;-} And you don't have to worry about rnews tying up uuxqt or
> (alternatively) flooding your system with inews'es...
> 

	Yes, that's all sounds good, but you still haven't worked out
how to stop new being lost.  I don't know what the mail system's like
in the US but in Aust. no matter how you sent it some would be lost or
at least delayed for an extended period of time.
	Actually from what I have seen that's probably no different to
the current situation.

						Frank Crawford
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