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In article <KARL.90Dec12194010@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>A whole slew of CompuServe users appears to have discovered the
>wonders of bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu in the last week or so, not to
>mention not a few other similar addresses.  Then there's the real
>humans out there who are sending multi-megabyte blortfuls in to
>themselves and their pals.

A description file (NTTARZ.UUE) was recently uploaded to UNIX Forum's
Data Libraries on CompuServe.  That is the kind of thing that can get
you increased business in a hurry.

>The pipe feeding as far as the gateway host here is T1, of course; but
>CompuServe is not IP-connected, and it's just a 9600bps straw going
>into CompuServe itself.  And we've only got B+ Protocol, not something
>known for raw throughput capacity.  Effective throughput is more like
>4800bps.

I am afraid that as the world continues to discover
Internet/UUCP/Usenet, traffic will only go up.  CIS or someone had
better plan for the future.

>We are considering, for the sake of gateway sanity, aggressively
>blowing away anything that clearly comes from or is going to an
>archive server.  This will require some administrative nonsense that I
>don't like, because I _really_ don't like peeking in other people's
>mail.  But we have to get control of the machines again.

Why not just blow away anything over 10K?  Surely small BITFTP transfers
are no more objectionable than other kinds of mail.  It's the 17 part
XDungeon transfers that suck.  Just make the rule that nothing bigger
than 10K gets gated.  You don't have to know what's in the mail to know
what size it is.

>MBASes: Just Say No, because You Don't Know Anything About The Links
>Between Hither And Yon.

Not necessarily so.  This here is a leaf site off UUNET which is on the
Internet.  The only extra net.cost I incur for a BITFTP above and beyond
what some tweed jacketed prof runs up on his Sun at Enchilada State is
the single UUCP link, which I pay for myself.

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