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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate,net.news.group,net.usenix
Subject: Again ... What is it going to COST?????
Message-ID: <5863@alice.uUCp>
Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 22:49:17 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 27 22:49:17 1986
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Keywords: Spurious traffic
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I've noticed that this weekend has been very bad for repeated
messages.  Several sets of six identical messages appeared
at alice, and I presume elsewhere.   In addition,
all of the traffic from Wednesday or so until Saturday
Re-appeared on sunday in duplicate.


According to this not so large sample, we could cut traffic
by about 20-30% MERELY by eliminating echoing machines,
and/or taking backbone action on machines that don't
stay fixed.
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