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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Frequent calling reduces phone time?
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 04:55:41 EDT
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Erik, I don't understand how your "frequent calling" method produces
lower phone bills.  Every message has to go between you and every news
neighbor exactly once.  Forwarding news quicker will change the ratio
of news that you receive to news that you send, but it will all still
have to traverse a phone line in one direction or the other.