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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Jamie's Junker -- All the News that Fits
Message-ID: <430@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 22:40:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.430
Posted: Thu Jun 19 22:40:21 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jun-86 10:30:22 EDT
References: <282@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <282@ubc-cs.UUCP> andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>
>     I just posted to net.sources a shar package for the Junker program,
>described earlier on net.news.group.  If you haven't heard of this
>before, it's a program which "junks" certain specified newsgroups
>by slicing out the middles of large articles until the total size
>of articles is below a certain specified limit.  Used judiciously it
>has the effect of reducing total traffic across communication lines
>for the newsgroups.
>

I think that anybody who feeds sites outside of their organization had
better consider very carefully whether or not they should use this program.

It's OK to limit your own internal costs, but it's far too easy for these
mutilated articles to get back out on the net and interfere with the
transmission of the intact article.  This has about all the appeal of
another notes blowout or a resurgence of the line eater bug.

Let's try to improve the net through some kind of generally acceptable
administrative changes, not through careless vigilante sabotage.

-- 
George Robbins - now working with,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)