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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: USENET is dead! Long live USENET! (was Re: The death of USENET)
Message-ID: <159@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 17:20:23 GMT
References: <531@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: Lake - The systems people
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From article <531@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>, by emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti):
>USENET has been mortally wounded with the passing of ihnp4.  From where
>I am sitting the prognosis is not good.

It will make a dent. Remember, ihnp4 pretty well has it's own file in the
map data area (Can't remember the name, but it's a biggie). However the
following typescript says everything that needs to be said regarding the
damage we have brought upon ourselves.

Script started on Mon Jun 13 13:12:28 1988
lakart!dg(mail/waiting)[61]-> grep -c ihnp4 /usr/lib/uucp/uumap/UUPATH
2258
lakart!dg(mail/waiting)[62]-> grep -c -v ihnp4 /usr/lib/uucp/uumap/UUPATH
8552
lakart!dg(mail/waiting)[63]-> wc -l /usr/lib/uucp/uumap/UUPATH
   10810 /usr/lib/uucp/uumap/UUPATH
lakart!dg(mail/waiting)[64]-> ^D
script done on Mon Jun 13 13:13:39 1988

As has been suggested we must reduce bandwidth. Is there no way of
unilaterally ditching any article in an unmoderated group whose size
exceedes a given limit. Or creating "net wide Kill files" - this would
clean up the "HELP ME!!" problem in a real hurry.
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