Aucbvax.1346 fa.human-nets utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mark Wed May 13 18:53:04 1981 the end is near From CSVAX:fateman Wed May 13 16:48:00 1981 To: mark Subject: junk mail and netnews Cc: j:larry vaxcom I think there should not be any individual copies of human-nets or any of the "junk-mail" messages sent or stored on any machine at Berkeley. That there are multiple copies of this sent to individuals from Ernie to Cory and perhaps elsewhere is not permissible. I think that "getting flak from users" is not the way to guide system development. I suggest that individual names be removed from these lists immediately. If the ethernet changes things so that sending messages is free and fast, they can be put back on. I can't say I disagree with this. I will shortly change the human-nets and sf-lovers mailing lists on CSVAX to ONLY feed into netnews. This way only one copy has to be stored on CSVAX, and only one copy will be sent to each other machine. Those of you who are not on a netnews machine should make other arrangements - for example, it would be possible for netnews to forward one copy of these lists to, say, C:human-nets, and it could be redistributed from there. For anyone out in uucp land who is getting a direct mailing, you should make arrangements to get it from a netnews machine - there are lots of them out there. This is especially critical right now because all of the printers on CSVAX are down, and people are jamming the 1200 baud network link to cory with printouts. There is no excuse for duplicate traffic under such circumstances. You say netnews is too slow? TOO BAD. While a new, faster version is being worked on, the current situation is that we just don't have the resources to be mailing individual copies. It's the end of the quarter and all the machines are already overloaded. (And remember - we could cut it off completely.) Mark Horton ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.