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From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: RFC - comp.binaries.gif
Message-ID: <194300031@trsvax>
Date: 26 May 88 13:32:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm    May 26 08:32:00 1988


>                                               ...Right now on xanth,
>our 4 day backlog of talk.bizarre postings is taking up 399K, or about
>the equivalent of _seven_ postings in your proposed .gif newsgroup,
>and this is 234 talk.bizarre postings.  This constitutes a bit under
>2% of our retained news holdings...

Then it seems that we have about 2% waste on the net that we could get rid of.

I don't intend to use talk.bizarre as a whipping boy for all the traffic.
There have been plenty of grand scale abusers in the past (comp.binaries.ibm.pc,
rec.arts.startrek, and comp.sys.amiga to name a few).  I just happen to dislike
talk.bizarre immensely and to me it is a continous source of waste unlike each
of the above mentioned which had a big surge and then settled back to something
more reasonable.  It is perhaps fortunate that I don't have anything to do with
the affairs at this site or else talk.bizarre would not get anywhere past sys1.

That is obviously just my opinion.

John Munsch