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From: toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: APPLE2-L brownvm.BITNET!listserv
Summary: I don't think its asking too much
	 If it is, something is dreadfully wrong with the net!!!
Message-ID: <1393@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
Date: 9 Jun 89 21:44:49 GMT
References: <8906090918.aa19688@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL
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In article <8906090918.aa19688@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) writes:
> >   Could the APPLE2-L node post a monthly report regarding access levels
> >   and bounced requests to comp.sys.apple or comp.binaries.apple2?
> 
> I am opposed to do this.  There is enough traffic on the net already.
> 
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> J. Douglas Ashbrook
[remainder of sig deleted]

Again, I have one statement pulled out of a posting with a response that
is totally inapropriate regarding the concept of the original posting.

This issue is not up for discussion or voting until the moderators of
the APPLE2-L listserv make it so.

The original posting was aimed at those moderators to see if they might
think it a worthy idea.  I am not talking about a LARGE report.
As an example;
   It could contain one line totals for the month of
     a) files requested
     b) transfers sent where the message bounced.
     c) number of different users making requests.
   It would also be nice to have a list of;
     a) the return address used for transfers that bounced
     b) the number of bounces for that requester.

If the network and all its gateways are working properly, the report
shouldn't be more than a few lines any month.

If the report gets large, some people might wake up to a general
problem and fix it.

A report with this information might actually help those of us who
lose contact with a net node isolate where the problem is.

I posted this to the net news since I can't be sure that my email would
make it to the moderators at APPLE2-L.
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The following is not meant as a flame (nor was the preceeding).

Speaking of 'enough traffic on the net already',
we could probably do without the group 'alt.flame' ( a plethora of
slimy notes, responses, responsese to responses, ad nauseum ) that
serves no useful purpose whatsoever.  If the people really need to
vent there frustrations, they should email directly, not waste the
net bandwith an our disk space.
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Maybe I shouldn't have done it, sarcasm is so   | Joseph G. Toth Jr.
seldom understood.  Don't FLAME on me, please.  | uunet!tellab5!toth