Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!naggum!erik
From: erik@naggum.se (Erik Naggum)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Cost of Morris' Worm
Summary: Man-years, staff-years, news transfer cost
Message-ID: <4711@naggum.se>
Date: 10 Nov 88 04:05:34 GMT
Reply-To: erik@naggum.se
Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway
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Paying for a lot of news trafficking through our system here,
I can't fail to think of the 

	cost of news transmission

resulting from Morris' worm and the ensuing discussions.

A few $$ for each netnews site sure adds up to quite an amount.
I suppose this is a cost that will hurt non-Internet sites more
than Internet sites.  So Robert Morris,jr has cost _me_ an
unnecessary increase in my phone bill.  Thanks!

--Erik Naggum
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