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From: CLIP08@VAXD.STRATH.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: PHONE
Message-ID: <8802150517.AA22133@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 10 Feb 88 01:55:49 GMT
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Has everyone noticed how inefficient at communicating PHONE is?
if you open a channel to a PHONE mailbox while it is in use,
and read from the channel...you will see that every character
typed by a use is sent preceded by their nodename and username

in other words...the ratio of bumpf to actaul message data is less than
10 to 1