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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Cost of news
Message-ID: <2209@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Sun, 11-May-86 12:19:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: seismo.2209
Posted: Sun May 11 12:19:59 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 06:24:06 EDT
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Summary: transmission cost is often not a factor


In the month of April, seismo sent over 1 GIGABYTE (1000 Megabytes)
of mail and news with uucp. /usr/spool filled up 3 times.
(/usr/spool is a 212 megabyte filesystem!)

seismo will be heavily cutting back on uucp traffic in the
next month or so. The phone charges are not really relevant.
It's eating too much of a vax 11/780.

---rick