Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Message-ID: <1797@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 01:25:48 GMT
References: <7475@swan.ulowell.edu> <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <1091@maynard.BSW.COM>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <1091@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>In article <2645@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
><>USENET has been mortally wounded with the passing of ihnp4.
>
>However, the people that blithely post and mail PC binaries are still dweebs.

Yes. Perhaps more sites should implement a size limit. Currently 64kb seems
to be the largest size that will succesfully get through most sites. I know
that ubc for example limits messages from off-campus to about 20kb (at least
they used, I assume they still do). 

You can get around this by posting lots of small messages, but I'm sure it
wouldn't be to hard to start maintaining a small history file and stop
forwarding messages when you see a large number going from the same sender
to the same receiver.



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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532