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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Nuke Waterloo?
Message-ID: <2034@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 22:16:05 GMT
References: <10279@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <22661@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1692@mcgp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
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In article <1692@mcgp1.UUCP> newsadm@mcgp1.UUCP (Netnews Administrator) writes:
>In article <22661@watmath.waterloo.edu>, rjwhite@watmath.waterloo.edu (RJ White) writes:
>> [The only access to watmath that Brad lost was his old student account.]
>
>Actually, this is a good political move.  Cancelling Brad's old, and presumably
>not all that useful to him any more, student account is pretty much a NOP, but
>it makes for good press and satisfies the great unwashed masses who now
>think that he has been severely chastised.  And the agreement that Brad
>may continue to transfer RHF through watmath as long as he uses a different
>path for the "questionable" material seems fair to both sides.  Brad can
>continue to do his thing and the University gets off the (legal) hook.

It would seem that this is for the most part a NOP as well. RHF will be fed
to other sites and will find it's way back into UW anyway.

All that's happening is that the "questionable" postings might take an extra
half day to start to propagate. But given new feeds spread out over NA
overall propagation delays will be reduced (ie average time for the the 
first few sites to get RHF might increase, but average time for all sites to
get RHF will be less)

So all in all JEDR will have played a great role in increasing the speed
with which RHF gets distributed.


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