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

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