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From: woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,news.misc
Subject: Re: sending source code
Message-ID: <939@hao.UCAR.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 23:33:50 EST
Article-I.D.: hao.939
Posted: Tue Nov 10 23:33:50 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Nov-87 05:17:51 EST
References: <631@louie.udel.EDU> <332@uvicctr.UUCP> <2566@umn-cs.UUCP> <467@srs.UUCP> <49@48color.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
Lines: 30
Summary: DON'T DO IT, PLEASE!!
Xref: mnetor comp.sources.bugs:441 news.misc:1121

In article <49@48color.UUCP> paddock@48color.UUCP (pri=-0-Steve Paddock) writes:
>In article <467@srs.UUCP> dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) writes:
>
>>I think that more thought needs to be given to transmitting large
>>binary files over Usenet. 

  I think more thought needs to be given to the cost effectiveness of doing
this. Last night, our spool directory ran out of space because someone
was mailing over a megabyte of chess game sources and records of chess
games through us. Yes, we run that close to the edge. So do most other
major sites, I expect. We can't afford to let multi-megabytes of disk
space sit idle most of the time just to handle the occasional large mailing.
I suggest that it is more reliable and more cost efficient to send mag
tapes via traditional shipping methods. That way, those who benefit
from the transmission pay the cost of it instead of us. 
  In my view, there are two legitimate uses of the generosity of sites
like ours that transmit things freely for everyone: things that a large
number of people can benefit from (news articles), or SHORT private 
messages that won't cause our phone bills to go through the roof or
our spool directories to overflow. Please THINK about what you are
doing (or thinking of doing). It is a BAD IDEA to encourage the mailing
of large sources. I wish uuencode had never been written.

PLEASE DON'T MAIL SOURCES OVER THE NET!!!

Thanks,
--Greg
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