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From: emv@fleetwood.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: news.admin
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Date: 5 Mar 88 19:07:26 GMT
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In article <692@oberlin.UUCP> news@oberlin.UUCP (Netnews Administrator) writes:
>I was wondering  about feed  etiquette.   I was  under the impression
>that each site was duty bound to feed any other  site if  such a feed
>did not cost the providing site anything.  
>
...
>
>What is the common convention on feeds?
>
>Chris Seline

Providing a news feed always costs something as far as system resources
goes - modem time on scarce modems, nntp traffic on congested gateways,
disk i/o on heavily used disks.  I should think that a site might have good
reason to suggest that another site look for an alternate feed, even if
there's no $ charges involved.
Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan mail group.