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From: mohamed@hscfvax.harvard.edu (Mohamed_el_Lozy)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: news.admin
Keywords: feeds usenet refusals
Message-ID: <525@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 88 17:44:47 GMT
References: <692@oberlin.UUCP> <3aad057d.c6e5@delrio.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: mohamed@hscfvax.UUCP (Mohamed_el_Lozy)
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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Posted: Mon Mar  7 12:44:47 1988

In article <3aad057d.c6e5@delrio.cc.umich.edu> emv@fleetwood.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>
>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.

Let me add two costs:

	1.  uucico (for uucp feeds) is not free.  In fact, it uses lots of
	cpu cycles for a full feed.

	2.  Administrator time for care and feeding of uucp over phone lines.
	I feel that uucp over telephone lines works most of the time, but with
	the volume of a full feed the administrator will spend quite a bit
	of time babysitting the lines.