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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Message-ID: <10382@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 17 Jun 88 22:19:07 GMT
References: <7475@swan.ulowell.edu> <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <1091@maynard.BSW.COM> <5017@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <5017@dasys1.UUCP>, tneff@dasys1.UUCP writes:
> A couple of thoughts:
> 
>  1) If AT&T changes from a high volume backbone site to a high volume
>     leaf site (this is how I interpret their announcement anyway), then
>     what lucky non-AT&T machine gets to be their feed? ;-)  Were the
>     administrators of said lucky machine consulted during all these
>     "high level meetings"? ;-)

This should actually cut the traffic.  Look at it this way:  no traffic
that flows in to the gateway will flow back out -- it will be seen as
duplicate, and bounced.  The only traffic flowing out, then, will be
postings by AT&T employees -- but those are arriving anyway on
everyone's machines, often several times by several twisty paths.
Again, this way you only see one copy.