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Article #19731Re: Design Demo
From: bytebug
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1987 21:34
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1987 21:34
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In article <1030@cooper.UUCP> joseph@cooper.UUCP (Joe Giannuzzi) writes:
>First, thanks to all you sick people who decided to mail me 10 copies of
>Design parts 5 and 6. I appreciated it, but the /usr/mail directory on
>our system didn't.
>
>Second, in response to all you sick people who decided that you too are
>missing many, many parts of Design and wanted it reposted, here goes.
The malicious reposting of half a megabyte in the span of a few hours
is not something to be taken lightly. This act done in a moment of
thoughtlessness has more than likely impacted mail and news delivery
all over the world.
To put this into a different perspective, if you use the numbers posted
in news.lists, we'd find that this posting has cost:
a) each site on the net -
500000 bytes * .15/minute @ 800 baud = $15.62
b) the whole net -
98% propagation * 7700 sites * $15.62 = $117,868.52
Pretty amazing isn't it. One moment of someone's foolishness has cost
the net $117,868.52.
--
Roger L. Long
FileNet Corp
{hplabs,trwrb}!felix!bytebug
--
Roger L. Long
FileNet Corp
{hplabs,trwrb}!felix!bytebug
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!sdcrdcf!trwrb!felix!bytebug From: bytebug@felix.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Design Demo Message-ID: <8197@felix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 17:34:35 EDT Article-I.D.: felix.8197 Posted: Fri Oct 2 17:34:35 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 07:07:38 EDT References: <1030@cooper.UUCP> Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long) Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 35