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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: USENET anarchy ! - (nf)
Message-ID: <1178@killer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 05:17:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1178
Posted: Thu Jul 23 05:17:05 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jul-87 03:18:16 EDT
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in article <145@bby-bc.UUCP>, john@bby-bc.UUCP (john) says:
> 
>> require that each local system getting their news from you in turn feeds other
>> local systems, and then using the freed capacity to improve connectivity (by
> 
> I don't know about making it mandatory but I think it should be considered
> an obligation by those receiving a feed to pass it on unless they have a very
> good reason not to.  If A feeds B and B refuses to feed C then A should feed
> C rather than B unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise.
> john

Exactly. If you are the system adminstrator of a system, "A", feeding system
"B", and system "C" comes to you asking you for a newsfeed (and you're nearing
capacity, e.g. a small machine with only a few modems), if "B" won't feed "C",
well, you can feed "C", and since "B" doesn't seem to want your newsfeed, you
can just drop "B" to free up capacity.... they musta not wanted netnews enuf,
huh? 

Sometimes there ARE compelling reasons, such as companies paranoid about
"hackers" that refuse to put dial-in modems on their computers... but in
today's world of the $3,000 Unix machine (an IBM AT clone with 80 meg hard
drive running Microport Sys V).... maybe the people at "B" who are interested
in getting the news, should get their own machine and forget about getting
their news fix from Company "B" (or, what I'd do, find a better employer!).
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