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From: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: mailers
Message-ID: <2131@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 13:47:19 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2131
Posted: Wed Feb 25 13:47:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 05:33:14 EST
Reply-To: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH
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I have a thought to broach with the wizards. There has been
much concern recently over the increased volume on news. I
regularly see posting of the following ilk:
	 
                I would have mailed but my mailer choked.....
  
  Now the same thing often happens to me, so I can appreciate
  the state of mind of the poster. But it is very wasteful of
  net.money to go through this. My question is: would it not
  be worthwhile to devote some fraction of net.genuis/net.GOD
  (s) resources to inventing better, more dependable, mailers?
   
   I well realise, even though I am a hardware engineer and
   therefor not qualified to speak on any subject (8-}), that
   this is a highly complex problem, with no simple, easy
   answers. After all, news is run on hundreds of different
   types of machines with the only common command command
   beings cp and rm, if that.
    
    But does that make it a goal not worth looking at?
     
     Just a thought
      

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