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From: steven@lakesys.UUCP (Steven Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v16i090:  Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory, Part01/49
Message-ID: <244@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 13:27:10 GMT
References: <346@ispi.UUCP> <2812@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <332@avsd.UUCP> <576@mcl.UUCP>
Reply-To: steven@lakesys.UUCP (Steven Goodman)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <576@mcl.UUCP> stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions) writes:
>In article <332@avsd.UUCP>, childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
>> Boo-boo-pucky. It's choked my modem up for a week so far. News has gone to
>> hell. All I see is one huge file being transmitted for half an hour, often
>> it's so big it encounters a checksum error and has to restart as a result
>> of accumulated line noise.
>> 
>> .....
>> 
>> Tough. Use the U S mails. Or bring a modem in from home and use your phone.
>> 
>

From what I have seen programs of this size are somewhat "rare" and I find
it difficult to see what the problem is.  There are bound to be people 
"out there" whom find listings like this to be extremely useful.  

I suggest we give this discussion a rest, if this kind of code is useful
to even a small handful of people it is good information to distribute.  
I can simpathsize with people's modems and disk drives when news gets LARGE
but, I believe there is some responcibility that must be considered when code
is sent and when distributing news.  

I administer some fairly LARGE computers and news has managed at some times
to bring them to their knees, I batch and ship off news to approx. a dozen
sites.  Spools overflow, inodes run out as do CPU cycles.  There have been
times where the error messages come to the console SO FAST that I cannot
even log into it!  Even with a small hanful of "TrailBlazers" I have seen
them all busy shipping news into my machines for HOUR after HOUR.  But it
is worth the trouble, worth all the problems if this information finds it's
way to someone whom will appreciate it.  


-- 
Steven M. Goodman
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