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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.sources.mac feeds
Message-ID: <315@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 20:02:12 EST
Article-I.D.: polaris.315
Posted: Mon Dec  2 20:02:12 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 07:36:55 EST
References: <943@wcom.UUCP> <243@mplvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
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In article <243@mplvax.UUCP> rec@mplvax.UUCP (Richard Currier) writes:
>As a News Administrator there is a simple solution to your problem. Turn off
>the groups at your site. You can lower you phone bills and let those of us
>who use the information in the groups get on with our jobs.

if more that just a few backbone sites do this, the newsgroup is effectively
killed across the entire net.  you seem to be a leaf node of usenet
where this is practical.  net.flame exited without a whimper when virtually
all backbone sites stopped transmitting it.  that is the degree of
influence that backbone sites have.

Herb Chong...

I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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