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From: olsen@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Jim Olsen)
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: a no cost solution to the current netflow problems
Message-ID: <499@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 11:43:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: xn.499
Posted: Tue Apr 28 11:43:59 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 00:42:18 EDT
References: <965@vortex.UUCP> <7946@utzoo.UUCP> <521@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU> <7960@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: olsen@xn.ll.mit.edu (Jim Olsen)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Summary: Excessive self-sacrifice is counterproductive

In article <7960@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Frankly, most of the backbone sites would be delighted to pass the whole
>job to somebody else.  There is a distinct lack of volunteers for massive
>phone bills, massive system load, clogged communications lines, and
>regular public abuse.

If any backbone site is spending too much on netnews, it should gradually
pare down its news flow to a level which it can comfortably support.
Otherwise, when the budget crunch comes it may force a complete cutoff of
news, causing much more disruption than a gradual reduction would.

It's simply bad network policy for a backbone site to spend more on news
than it can afford.

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Jim Olsen	olsen@xn.ll.mit.edu
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