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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: The politics of groups (of people)
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 12:27:18 EDT
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> ... I think a major problem we are facing is the technology we are
> using, that is, 1200 baud links. Networking technology is progressing
> quickly enough that I doubt this will be a problem for long...
> ... Processors are getting so
> cheap that I doubt it will be long before active sites can just absorb
> the cost of a dedicated box for feeding/receiving news...

I think you're forgetting something:  at many sites (mine, for example)
news basically gets a "free ride" on equipment bought for other reasons.
Their budget for news-dedicated equipment is, and will remain, precisely
zero.  Also, some of us are getting increasingly unwilling to spend more
money on providing yet more bandwidth for (say) net.politics.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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