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Re: IRC Servers in der Schweiz

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From: Matthias Neeracher
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <4dljji$4sf@elna.ethz.ch>, moser@ks.id.ethz.ch (Stefan Moser) writes:
> felix.rauch@limmat.ch (Felix Rauch) writes:
>> Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch) wrote:
>>> Do not forget that Swiss Universities connected to SWITCH now pay for
>>> incoming volume --- and IRC is not that negligible.

> Indeed it's not. irc.ethz.ch consistently topped the monthly
> ETHZ <-> Internet traffic statistic provided by SWITCH for . Go figure.
> [...]
> However I'd like to state that so far there hasn't been any
> interference whatsoever regarding certain types of internet traffic.

Hmm... I remember that back in the days where LPMuds roamed free at ETH,
traffic based arguments were indeed employed against them, although I am
not entirely sure whether there anything was done against the MUDs that could
have been contrued as "interference".

Matthias

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From: neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
Subject: Re: IRC Servers in der Schweiz
Date: 1996/01/24
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