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From: spaf@gatech.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.news.group
Subject: This abuse must stop!
Message-ID: <4796@gatech.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 13:01:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: gatech.4796
Posted: Sat Oct 18 13:01:18 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Oct-86 04:30:39 EDT
Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
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Organization: Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech
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net.micro.pc is for postings and discussions about IBM PCs and compatibles.
It is *NOT* a newsgroup for posting 200K object files.  It is *NOT* a
newsgroup for REPOSTING object files.  Posting and reposting of
large object files is not only inappropriate, it is rude and
a waste of net resources.

If this abuse of the newsgroup continues, I will stop carrying
net.micro.pc here and stop forwarding it to other backbone sites.  I
suspect that many other admins, including some backbone admins, will do
the same.  The readership of net.micro.pc is not very large (at least
here) and I see no reason to waste resources on inappropriate postings
in that group.  I have no objection to carrying discussion-oriented
articles, or even reasonably-sized source postings, but I will not
carry unmoderated object postings, especially when other sites are
complaining about the volume in the group.
-- 
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet:	Spaf @ GATech		ARPA:	Spaf@ics.GATECH.EDU
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