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From: bytebug@felix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Design Demo
Message-ID: <8197@felix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 17:34:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: felix.8197
Posted: Fri Oct  2 17:34:35 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 07:07:38 EDT
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Reply-To: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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In article <1030@cooper.UUCP> joseph@cooper.UUCP (Joe Giannuzzi) writes:
>First, thanks to all you sick people who decided to mail me 10 copies of
>Design parts 5 and 6.  I appreciated it, but the /usr/mail directory on
>our system didn't.
>
>Second, in response to all you sick people who decided that you too are
>missing many, many parts of Design and wanted it reposted, here goes.

The malicious reposting of half a megabyte in the span of a few hours
is not something to be taken lightly.  This act done in a moment of
thoughtlessness has more than likely impacted mail and news delivery
all over the world.

To put this into a different perspective, if you use the numbers posted
in news.lists, we'd find that this posting has cost:

	a) each site on the net -

		500000 bytes * .15/minute @ 800 baud = $15.62

	b) the whole net -

		98% propagation * 7700 sites * $15.62 = $117,868.52

Pretty amazing isn't it.  One moment of someone's foolishness has cost
the net $117,868.52.

--
	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
	{hplabs,trwrb}!felix!bytebug
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	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
	{hplabs,trwrb}!felix!bytebug