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From: rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: USEnet on GEnie...a followup
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Date: 28 Dec 89 16:51:47 GMT
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Reply-To: rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo)
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Here's an interesting sidenote:

I was on GEnie last night, attending the Atari ST RT discussions.
(Every Wednesday night at 10:00 pm EST). I brought up the
USEnet->GEnie transfer topic. Most people didn't know it
existed, and those that did were *glad* that it stopped. 
It seems that the USEnet messages were saturating the Atari ST
section. (Too much info, too fast.) People found they
couldn't keep up, even for the few days (hours?) it was operating.

This makes sense. When I was administering a UUCP site a year
ago, we'd get about 5 MBytes/week of USEnet articles. comp.sys.atari.st
is one of the more voluminous sections...I wonder if GEnie took
that into account. :) Probably started filling up their disk space.


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