Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: How to eliminate the cost of over 1/5 (or more) of net traffic Message-ID: <9304@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 17 May 88 15:03:26 GMT References: <1616@looking.UUCP> <719@fig.bbn.com> <196@ssbn.WLK.COM> <52918@sun.uucp> <6556@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <7869@mcdchg.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 19 In article <7869@mcdchg.UUCP> heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes: >Don has an interesting idea. >.... Unfortunately, it would also mean that we would >lose all semblance of discussion order. If person A posted a 150 line article >and person B posted a 10 line rebuttle, the rebuttle would appear on systems >before the original article. That already happens quite a bit. We don't lose here. >.... The other problem I see with the idea >is that moving all the big stuff on the weekends means that it's happening >when there is no one (or almost no one) around to keep an eye on the system. You mean you don't catch up on your news reading on the weekends ?? -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Goodbye RAH.