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From: rap@oliveb.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Network hospitality abuse
Message-ID: <845@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 13:01:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.845
Posted: Wed May 14 13:01:21 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 16-May-86 05:26:49 EDT
References: <2344@phri.UUCP> <3789@utah-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: rap@olivej.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
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In article <3789@utah-cs.UUCP> donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley) writes:
>
>It's clear that this practice (making other people pay the cost of your
>huge uucp transmissions) hasn't ceased on the network.  (If it was the
>same person, Roy, I suggest we organize a lynching -- send me mail,
>we'll exchange names.) Does anyone have a suggestion for handling these
>awkward situations?
>
>Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn@utah-cs.arpa
>40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W    (801) 581-5668    decvax!utah-cs!donn

One possibility is to have Pnews reject submissions from any
user  that has sent more than N kilibytes in the last month.
Problem is that would be site dependent.  Possible advantage
is that there would be more encouragement to post sources to
mod.sources instead of net.sources.
-- 
					Robert A. Pease
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