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Re: NOT JUST COWS - Summary of personal messages to Bill Drew
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 93)
Tue May 26 12:30:07 1992
Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 11:22:19 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741" <GRAHAM%ZODIAC.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
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From: Peter Graham
The problem with such testimonials as Mr Drew has accumulated is that they
reflect those who care to support the case, and the views of those who by
definition have the time to deal with multiple postings and to respond
so affirmatively. There are thousands of people on the net affected by those
multiple messages and we all appreciate their/our not writing to protest them;
we just grin and bear it.
The net guidelines exist for a reason, and so do common ideas of consideration;
I continue to think that posting to 10 lists displays a lack of targeting and
is an imposition on those who receive it all. As a systems administrator the
implications for net traffic, gateway upgrade costs, disk storage costs, and
the like are also disturbing. The net is not free; your use of it is costing
academic institutions money. Is the pressure to upgrade systems caused by
excessive network use the best use of our resources? There's no clean
answer, obviously, but we do need to think ahead.
--pg
