[45506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Feb 3 12:38:56 2002
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@as.vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:35:15 -0500
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In message <g3lmeao4x1.fsf@as.vix.com>, Paul Vixie writes:
>
> It's well and truly past time to pull it
>rather than push it.
>
Agreed -- and I'm one of the people who invented pushing netnews. It
was an artifact of the technology of the time.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
