Xref: utzoo news.misc:1887 news.admin:3792 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin Subject: Re: Some interesting news stats Message-ID: <10438@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 26 Oct 88 04:48:56 GMT References: <5200@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <11250@bellcore.bellcore.com> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 40 I dunno about the rest of you ... But I value the information I get from the news much more than I value what I 'learn' in all those freebie magazines I get inundated with. Shoot, I simply stopped reading a couple of them months ago! And I was so happy when Information Week sent me a letter today saying that if I didn't fill in the enclosed card and beg them for a continuance of my subscription, why they'd shut me off! I chuckled all the way to the trash can, let me tell you :-) (Some of those freebies are good, and I see a different sort of information that I see here, but still ...) Fortunately my employers feel the same as I do... Make sure that Usenet makes a contribution to the work environment. It'll defend itself. How much is stuff like compress worth to you? Compress, just to pick on one good contribution to EVERYONE, was written with the idea of lowering phone costs. But the code has surfaced in so many places it's not funny. And it's saved countless amounts of disk space on computers everywhere. What are the savings to the world simply because compress exists? But it's not just compress. There's so many things we've been able to do here at UK because we knew something we'd learned from the net. Like the broadcast storm we were having on our ethernet which I finally diagnosed with the help of one of Charles Hedricks articles. It goes on and on. In my view the money (resources) we spend on Usenet (disk space, my time to administer it, and varying amounts of staff time for reading it) is worth every penny. -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- <-- Controlled anarchy -- the essence of the net.