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From: Marcus_Siskin@um.cc.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hey Guys cut it out!!!!
Message-ID: <4050@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 88 15:07:02 GMT
Sender: daemon@umix.cc.umich.edu
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I just got this message from the Usenet news administrator here at the
U of Michigan.  I don't want to miss out on the information that
Comp.sys.amiga offers but I can understand his problem.  The limit here
seems to be around 8000 lines per day.  The previous posting was over
7000 lines when you consider that there were 10 UUencoded files posted.
Please consider that many systems have to limit the amount of mail
incoming when you are tempted to post megabytes of information even if
it is encoded.
                        Marcus_Siskin@um.cc.umich.edu
---(Forwarded from: Edward_Vielmetti@um.cc.umich.edu, Dated: Sat, 23 Apr 88 05:01:30 EDT)---
 
Today's info-amiga digest will not be available, since some idiot
posted a uuencoded binary as part of it.  The fragment of the
digest that I got ran more than 400K, and there's a change that
it was even bigger than that.
 
If the volume in this usenet group continues to generate messages
that are bigger than the mail system can handle, it will be necessary
to cancel info-amiga.  If you can make alternate arrangements
to read comp.sys.amiga on one of the CAEN apollos or on zippy or dippy,
please do so.
 
The messagesystem just wasn't meant for things like this....not
that it's any of your fault, just that it's going to be tough to
justify such huge amounts of traffic through the message system
that's just vast quantities of binary garbage.
 
There may be an alternative by-mail amiga newsletter available
through the bitnet; if I can find one, it will replace the current
setup.
 
--Ed
Edward Vielmetti
 
usenet news admin & cc mail group