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From: miker@laidbak.UUCP (Mike Roth)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: ihnp4 problems
Message-ID: <785@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 12:13:54 EDT
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In article <381@ihopa.UUCP> edw@ihopa.UUCP (Ed Windes) writes:
>In article <3880@ut-ngp.UUCP>, ut-ngp!werner (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>> 	A job, badly done, can be worse than a job not done at all.
>> 	There is nothing worse in communications than UNRELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS.
>> Maybe someone should simply pull the plug on ihnp4 . . .
>
>Ha! Now that's what I call constructive criticms!  I've got an idea, Werner.
>  Why don't you set up an alternative system for us and let the whole world
>  use it for free?  Oh, and don't forget, it has to be perfect! ;-)
>Seriously, if you want reliability, pay somebody to deliver your mail and
>  then you'll have somebody to complain to.
>TANSTAAFL - there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

And Ed is really contributing to the solving of this problem with his
response.  My postings, and I suspect Werner's also, are meant to try
to help make the net more reliable.  Ed seems to be quite happy with
the status quo.  I'm not sure why.

When communications become unreliable, only traffic which doesn't NEED
to get through will use that communications line.  The company then
will consider keeping the line up as a waste of money.  Then the line
goes away.  Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophesy to me.  Whether you
like it or not, ihnp4 affects a large area of the net.  If it can't
handle it, maybe we need to look for some alternatives.

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Mike Roth  -  {ihnp4 | uiucdcs | allegra}!laidbak!miker