Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!necntc!rayssd!dhb From: dhb@rayssd.UUCP Newsgroups: news.misc,news.software.b Subject: Re: Bogus loud warning messages Message-ID: <1056@rayssd.RAY.COM> Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 22:11:36 EDT Article-I.D.: rayssd.1056 Posted: Tue Jun 2 22:11:36 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jun-87 01:33:47 EDT References: <1216@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1953@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Sender: root@rayssd.RAY.COM (UNIX System Administrator @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI) Reply-To: dhb@rayssd.RAY.COM (David Brierley) Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI Lines: 29 Xref: utgpu news.misc:438 news.software.b:617 In article <1953@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >In article <1216@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu writes: >> From a recent version of Pnews: ... >> Does this mean that someone is spending millions if not tens of millions >> of dollars per year to support 'soc.singles'? > >What makes you think that it's bogus? Most sites that participate in usenet >spend thousands of dollars a year on telecommunications charges to receive and >redistribute news articles. A thousand sites (conservative) at a thousand >(*very* conservative) dollars a year is a million dollars. I would estimate >that the real total expenditure is 5-20 times this much. Since the soc.xxx >groups are ~10% of the total volume, you can work out the details. I would certainly agree that this estimate is conservative. I dont consider my site to be very large, we only have one news connection that we have to pay money for (we have other feeds but they use company internal phone links) and I was recently told by management to cut the phone bills because they had exceeded a thousand a month. If we are spending a thousand dollars a month I can imagine what other sites are spending. -- David H. Brierley Raytheon Submarine Signal Division 1847 West Main Road Portsmouth, RI 02871 Phone: (401)-847-8000 x4073 Internet: dhb@rayssd.ray.com Uucp: {cbosgd, gatech, linus, mirror, necntc, uiucdcs} !rayssd!dhb