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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Jamie's Junker -- All the News that Fits
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Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 17:40:03 EDT
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Does no one out there realize what a terribly bad idea this "junker"
concept is? It is deliberately introducing transmission bugs into an
already-fragile and problem-ridden system! There is absolutely no basic
difference between what "junker" is supposed to do (chop the middle out
of otherwise good [e.g, complete] articles) and what the line-eater bug
did [or does] (chop the front off otherwise complete articles). Not only
is this an awful idea to deliberately adopt, but the net effect is an
increase in net-wide costs -- people are now going to be paying to
transmit garbled and incomplete articles, the subsequent reports of the
garbling, the retransmission attempts as people try to get their
articles sent in one piece, extra header overhead as people split long
articles into several separate parts, and so on. When I first read the
tentative proposal, it was obvious to me that it was a bad idea. It
cannot possibly do any good. Why do not the rest of you see this clear
fact? I cannot believe that this bad idea has progressed so far!

Will