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From: jad@hpfcla.UUCP (jad)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 20:15:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 20:15:00 1985
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> 	Yes, that's all sounds good, but you still haven't worked out
> how to stop news 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.

	One possibility is to have a dedicated service to do this ...
	perhaps it would be cheaper to hire someone to run tapes back
	and forth from city to city.  (FedEx was the original
	suggestion, and that's about all they do, pretty reliably, too).

	But what am I saying?  This seems like a huge step backwards.
	Never underestimate the bandwidth of a boatload of tapes, but
	think about propagation delay, and the incredible hassles
	associated with loading a boatload of tapes onto tape drives.
	Arrrgh.  TCP/IP, on the other hand, ain't so bad ...

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