Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Posting for the rest of us Message-ID: <12238@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 2 May 88 21:19:10 GMT References: <1596@looking.UUCP> <4203@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 16 How do we insist on this? The backbone sites modify their inews to examine the "From" line of every message. If the domain there isn't found in the database of known domains, the message is tossed on the floor. [1] Just how much CPU do you think I've got? I'll grant you that I already have to do a DBM lookup on the Message-ID of every article that comes in, but doubling the number of large lookups of that type does not make me feel good. I have a dual-processor Pyramid 98x whose load is currently at about a 12, and he's just not happy right now. Work is getting done, but he's not happy. [2] Your scheme obliterates 9 of my 23 news neighbors. They won't like that, and I don't like it, notwithstanding the fact that I think they ought to have registered by now. --Karl