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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Junker
Message-ID: <2863@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 18:47:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 27 18:47:24 1986
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Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corporation R&D, Santa Monica
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Any "solution" to the Usenet problem which people feel they can righteously
get around WILL be gotten around, and is therefore next to useless.  I suspect
most people on this net feel that it is wrong to transmogrify other people's
articles, and therefore that it is okay to get around or otherwise disable
Junker sites.  We'll just see higher overhead because of articles split into
smaller pieces and retransmitted.

I am personally considering some changes to the news software that will 
automatically give Junker sites lots more junk to play with.  Sort of turn
them into black holes.  It works like this: if we can fill up the Junker's
/usr/spool every night, he probably won't be able to "process" and transmit
as many articles.  1/3 :-)

[Sacrificial line for the Junker]

Seriously, this Junker idea is neither good nor workable.  Does it have anything
whatsoever going for it, apart from giving the implementors an ill-defined and
misbegotten sense of having done the world good?  Strewing the net with
half-stomped articles is not my idea of doing the world good, and if attempted
will be met with sticks, stones, pitchforks and an occasional pipe bomb.

Requisite quote:
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death."

Larry Wall
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