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From: mason@tmsoft.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Response to Amos Shapir's Query by providing a bit of history
Message-ID: <153@tmsoft.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 15:20:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: tmsoft.153
Posted: Fri Jul  3 15:20:22 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 11:50:59 EDT
References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <8225@utzoo.UUCP> <272@brandx.rutgers.edu> <306@nsta.UUCP> <274@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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In article <274@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
>In article <306@nsta.UUCP>, amos@nsta.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>> ...
>> What I did not understand from Webber's latest article is what he suggests
>> as a solution to the net traffic problems (he does not seem to be fond
>> ...
>
>A brief history:  a few months ago, I saw an announcements of the new
> ...

Your history sounds all very reasonable, and it's fairly easy to see how
in the midst of it all sometimes things get interpreted out of context or
otherwise get blown out of proportion.

A few years ago I, and some others were arguing fairly strenuously that
some kind of keyword based news reader was required to cut down on the
amount of chaff you have to search through to find the odd kernel of wheat.
In the end, the discussion went the way of the Dodo, as have, I'm sure,
many others, before and since.  I would suggest you explain again your
quota idea; then let it lie fallow.  Someone may pick up on it & it may
save the net (if you want to get credited with saving the net, you should
probably re-post every 6 months or so, so everyone knows it's your idea).

OR
You can program your quota system and get Rutgers to use it, then
on the basis of whatever is wonderful about it at Rutgers, convince your
net neighbours, then the state, then the east coast, and by then you can
probably convince the rest of us.

It is my experience that on the net, very few people are willing to program
someone else's idea in the hope that it might work.  Proofs by existence
are the only valid ones.  (The keyword idea was partly programmed by someone,
(at garfield as I remember) but it was never stable enough to implement
everywhere, and the person graduated or something & the idea died, at least
for now.  I & some others thought about programming it, but didn't have the
time (or maybe the conviction)).
--
	../Dave Mason,	TM Software Associates	(Compilers & System Consulting)
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