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Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Sat Feb 2 16:06:40 2002

Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:06:03 -0500 (EST)
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To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

> Perhaps the same time the end-users (whose fees go towards paying for the
> hardware, presumably) say "we don't want binaries anymore."

It would be interesting to survey the customers and see:

A) how many would care if we didn't provide usenet
B) how many would care if we didn't carry any binaries
C) how many have never heard of usenet

I suspect A and B would be small, and C large.

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