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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Net saturation
Summary: Use the Internet!
Message-ID: <3772@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 88 16:39:34 GMT
Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu
Reply-To: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Organization: The Mad Scientists' Guild
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It seems like the UUCP part of USENET is being saturated by all the
binaries and talk.* postings that everyone is yelling about.  It seems
like a good solution to just encourage more sites to get on the
Internet; it is nowhere near saturation, and provides services (ftp,
for example) that would make some of the newsgroups completely
unnecessary: rather than posting your favorite IBM PC binary to every
site on the net, you just post an ad for it and leave it up in an
anonymous FTP area on your site.

I realize that laying down a connection to a neighbor site is very
expensive, but it can be done, and in the long run might prove more
cost-effective than placing lots of long-distance UUCP calls.

Any comments?

-Steven Grimm
 koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu