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From: venta@i2ack.UUCP (Paolo Ventafridda)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: i2ack request for news/email supply connection
Message-ID: <121@i2ack.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 10:55:32 GMT
References: <102@i2ack.UUCP> <9198@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <56046@pyramid.pyramid.com>
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In article <56046@pyramid.pyramid.com>, csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
> 
> The big problem in Europe isn't a monopolistic EUNet; it's monopolistic and
> paranoid PTTs (Post-Telephone-Telegraph).
> 
You Got It. We are about 10 years below U.S.
But some prices here for UUCP are simply ridicolous.
If i had to send a 100K file to - say - a friend in Germany, i have better
call it by phone and do a mere file transfer: i will pay 30% of i2unix charge!

Now, here we go:

HOW TO REDUCE COSTS ON EUNET  (Part I)
----------------------------------------
1 -  A Sig-Daemon on each backbone reads each message and takes off 
     signatures, spare headers etc. 
2 -  The From: is irrelevant. Use your fantasy to figure out who wrote
     the mail.
3 -  The To: is a *real *waste of bytes. If the message came to you, it's
     obvious that YOU were the addressed, unless your backbone is
     running sendmail.
4 -  Poor networks, such as i2unix, will also cut the  Date:  line.
5 -  Ever hos mus remov th las lette of eac wor. Usene peopl is cleve
     enoug t understan it all th sam .
6 -  Remove all spaces between words! Spaces cost Money and contain no
     information! 
7 -  This is my favourite: one message out of "x"  ("x" being random-generated)
     is simply DELETED on the backbone, instead of being spooled.
     No one will ever notice that. 
8 -  Strong usage of abbreviations. For instance, instead of writing:
     "Hi! I saw your posting in the Newsgroup and..."
     "H!I s y p i t N a .."
     If you can't read it as well, then you have no imagination.


Here is how a message on EUnet-2 would look like.


             H!Isypotnaiwtamshatc.
             Dyiip? Iswwastlsrqjhg,ap;qw.
             G,
                 P 



Greets to everybody. Oops: Gte
                                  P.V.

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