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From: swb@DEVVAX.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Scott Brim)
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Subject: Why is the ARPANet in such bad shape these days?
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 14:05:12 EDT
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Lixia: I've always wondered about figures like that.  Aren't the
overwhelming majority of the gateways on Arpanet also decent-sized
hosts in their own right -- so that much of the traffic in your
figures might be legitimate user traffic?
							Scott

p.s. talk about degenerative congestion -- when the network gets slow
we all start sending gobs of mail back and forth in order to improve
it!