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From: baparao@uscvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Banned report by Citizens for Democracy--- \"Oppression in Punjab\"
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 03:15:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 03:15:49 1986
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References: <556@decwrl.DEC.COM> <434@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Reply-To: baparao@usc-cse.UUCP (Bapa Rao)
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In article <434@ur-helheim.UUCP> badri@ur-helheim.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan) writes:
>Of late, there has been a lot of talk (in other newsgroups) about the
>cost of transmitting an article. While I understand that this report
>may be of interest to many people, I think it is inappropriate to 
>put it on the net without finding out if it is indeed worth the cost.
>If the author's estimate is correct, the length of this article is
>about 100 pages! It might be better, in future, to inform netters about the
>availability of the document and then, depending on the response, put
>it on the net.


I suggest that extraordinarily long articles (such as Mr. Bajwa's recent 100
page effort) NOT BE PUT ON THE NET AT ALL in the future. It may be more
appropriate, considering the transmission costs, for people to post a brief
abstract of such an article, along with a U.S. mail contact address to
obtain print copies if anyone is interested. Besides the transmission costs,
it is also problematic for net readers to read such articles on the net; for
a number of us, tying up shared print facilities to print out a private,
100-odd page article is not a reasonable option. 


						--Bapa Rao.