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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Doomsday cometh?  Are you sure?
Message-ID: <863@burl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 19:21:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.863
Posted: Wed Sep 11 19:21:34 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 10:01:55 EDT
References: <781@vortex.UUCP> <85@l5.uucp>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
Lines: 30
Keywords: GRRRR!!!
Summary: 

In article <85@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>I just set up my system here in San Francisco and am getting fed by
>ptsfa.  Batched and compressed, at 1200 baud, it doesn't seem to be a
>big load on the system, except for disk space.  Frankly, I notice the
>mail traffic a lot more.
>
1) Does ptsfa call you local?  If so, where do they get their news?
   How has my article from the East Coast reached your machine?
2) What system(s) do you feed?
3) Assuming you feed anyone systems at all, do you call any of them
   long distance, Daddy Warbucks?

The major load we are talking about is not disk space or CPU time,
although they do contribute.  We are talking about PHONE TIME.  I have
received flak before here at AT&T for using our corporate phone network
in the wee hours of the morning to send news.  This network is totally
within the company and doesn't "cost" AT&T anything that I know of over
and above normal long distance line maintenance.  It has to be there
anyway because we ship REAMS of data back and forth with Bell Labs in
Whippany, NJ (also on our project).  Now, if I am getting flak here with
all that going for me, just what do you think is happening on a system
like decvax that provides incredible amounts of phone $$$$ (what was it
running, $100,000/month for them??) ??

Think about it,
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