🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello, chess lovers,

I hate to take issues with your enthusiasm of playing chess, but was
it really necessary to post about 500KB of news articles in one SINGLE
day?
Wasn't it possible to put it into some archive and announce it
(in gnu.announce) and have people access it?

Just a few days ago, there was a BIG article in gnu.gcc (or was it g++)
newsgroup which had a large listing of make output. (about 500KB).
Someone posted a message saying that he needed to be removed from the mailing
list because that article used up all his telephone fee allotment of the
month. Too bad.

The poster of the article didn't realize that the listing was that
large, and that he didn't seem to think twice before sending to the
bug report address: (I think the mail exchanges with a few other
netters made the original poster realize the problem caused by the big
article.)

Again, 
some of us are paying steep fee for telephone connection (in my case,
international carrier) and trying to minimize the telephone fee each
month. I, for one, am trying to do many little tricks to make UUCP
transfer faster. But, occasional big postings negates all my efforts
to cut down telephone fee. (Not everyone is enjoying fast connection
which is paid indirectly in a shared manner by many interested parties.)

I looked at the first articles of chess posting, and sure the contents
seem to be interesting.  If I had time like I used to when I was a
student, I myself would have played with it, and would have sent in
comment, etc..  I have no question that the chess lovers will try to
access by FTP, or ask mail transfer if necessary. But, IMHO, imposing
the whole 500KB plus to everyone who receive gnu news group in one day
was a little too much. (I was shocked twice in the last several days,
and in gnu newsgroup at that! Don't take me wrong. I am for GNU and
for FSF, and that is why I have my news site get feed directly from
UUNET.)
 
Your consideration before hitting the RETURN key
for these poor netters with (slow/expensive)
connetion before hitting the RETURN key is very much appreciated.

Thank you.


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