Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!cbosgd!rayssd!d2b
From: d2b@rayssd.ray.com (Donald A. Borsay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: I have seen other plea's but add my own.
Summary: Consolidate the isolated cases, not the whole list
Message-ID: <1835@rayssd.ray.com>
Date: 25 Feb 88 18:18:42 GMT
References: <8802202217.AA23139@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1598@uoregon.UUCP>
Sender: d2b@rayssd.ray.com (Donald A. Borsay @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI)
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In article <1598@uoregon.UUCP> dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes) writes:
>This list generates between 300
>and 500 messages PER DAY (counting all multiple copies for stupid
>mailers, local servers, inter-server distributions, etc.)
>. With all the other semi-important traffic that has to pass through
>this link, files queue up -- about 6000 or so. You can only push data
>through a line so fast.
>
>Thus, all this has to work it's way through the queues. This is
>EXACTLY why this group should be digested. The volume is just TOO
>high.

I guess I'm missing the point...  Even with a digest, the AMOUNT of data
is still the same, but the number of articles/messages is less.  I guess
BITnet must have a large overhead per mail message...

Why not resolve this within BITnet, or maybe even at the cross Atlantic
link?  Isn't the Arpanet list send to a BITnet list anyhow?  If so,
the intersect point is the BITnet list.

I read INFO-VAX from the Usenet comp.os.vms group.  Reading a digest format
newgroup makes RN as useful as CAT!
>
>Once more, I volunteer to digest this group -- any takers?
>
>
>-- 
>David Boyes         | ARPA: 556%OREGON1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
>Systems Division    | BITNET: 556@OREGON1
>UO Computing Center | UUCP: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP
>'How long d'ya think it'll be before just us oldtimers remember WISCVM?'      


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