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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Causes on the net... (Suggestion to limit traffic)
Message-ID: <785@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 06:07:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: vortex.785
Posted: Sat Sep  7 06:07:50 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Sep-85 04:48:41 EDT
Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles
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The influx of small machines will serve to INCREASE the growth of 
Usenet netnews massively.  People are starting to gateway in from other
networks running all sorts of software on all sorts of systems.
Cross-network links are already appearing left and right, and 
I've seen several more proposed recently.  

I see nothing to indicate other than continued explosive growth until
the load becomes so great that people start dropping off in large
numbers, or until hubs start cutting back on the netnews materials they
are willing to transmit.

We're no longer dealing with a single network here--Usenet is
a hub that a variety of networks pour into, and as such we're
seeing traffic and growth that is the union of many different
nets.

--Lauren--