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From: pozar@well.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: FidoNET Newsletter
Message-ID: <1973@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 14:59:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 24 14:59:13 1986
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In article <370@instable.UUCP> amos@instable.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>In article <768@hplabsc.UUCP> taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor) writes:
>>If the demand reaches sufficient levels (200+) then perhaps we can all discu
ss 
>>making it a new newsgroup, or a part of another group, but in the meantime I
'd 
>>like to see the postings stop.
>
>Hooray for that! See what happens:
>Filesystem    kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/ra0e      26611   21683    2266    91%    /NEWS
>-- 
>	Amos Shapir
>
>National Semiconductor (Israel)
 
    Are you saying a 48K file is going to break your system?.  Even if you get
both net.mail and net.news, thats 96K.  I can understand some of the other
arguments, by not a restriction of disk space.  If you are going to receive
mail, and/or news groups, and a backlog of mail, or some moderate posting comes
along, your dead.  I would think a better rational to this problem would be
getting some more disk space or unsuscribing from a couple of news groups, or
(temporarily) clean out some dead wood.  I'm not trying to FLAME.  I'm just 
bewildered that this point is being used for an argument to stop the posting
of the FidoNews.  As stated before, I can understand an argument like, "Not
applicable" (although I don't agree), or wrong format (msg vs. mag) (a point
that can be debated.)   
    Fido is a network of 1000+ nodes that are publicly listed and many more
that are private.   I think that, because of the size, and how well Fido works,
we (the USENET community) should have access to information concerning Fido.
   A more pesimistic view, was the one stated by Erik Fair.  In it he said that
Fido is increasing in size at a meteoric rate.  He seems to feel that Fido will
crash just as hard, and he is interested in seeing the hows and whys in order
to avoid such a catastrophe for these nets.  Those who restrict the flow of 
information will be damned from ignorance.
   Boy, I feel like Dr. Gene Scott.  Whew!

                         Tim Pozar
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