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From: WOLF@BBNG (Jerry Wolf)
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Subject: Re: VI in TPU part 14/14 (AND ALL SUCH SUBMISSIONS!)
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 10:20:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 10:20:00 1987
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I would like to protest the distribution to the entire INFO-VAX
list of LARGE program sources such as the recent "VI in TPU" that
hit our machine this past weekend.  Mr. Wonderly's effort appears
to be impressive at least in terms of bulk, and may well be useful to scores of
INFO-VAXers -- that's not the point at all.  I just don't see the
point of inflicting a megabyte (more or less -- I didn't count) of
traffic through many networks worldwide on all of us who aren't
desiring it.

I admit I don't know if this had been preceded by a net-wide discussion
of whether a general distribution of this was desired by enough
people -- I discard many INFO-VAX messages after scanning the subject.
So maybe I had a chance to vote against it beforehand.  I just don't
feel that this is the appropriate vehicle for such distributions.
Why not collect responses from interested parties and send JUST to them?

  Jerry Wolf
  BBN Laboratories Incorporated