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Article #8354This abuse must stop!
From: Gene Spafford
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1986 17:01
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1986 17:01
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net.micro.pc is for postings and discussions about IBM PCs and compatibles.
It is *NOT* a newsgroup for posting 200K object files. It is *NOT* a
newsgroup for REPOSTING object files. Posting and reposting of
large object files is not only inappropriate, it is rude and
a waste of net resources.
If this abuse of the newsgroup continues, I will stop carrying
net.micro.pc here and stop forwarding it to other backbone sites. I
suspect that many other admins, including some backbone admins, will do
the same. The readership of net.micro.pc is not very large (at least
here) and I see no reason to waste resources on inappropriate postings
in that group. I have no objection to carrying discussion-oriented
articles, or even reasonably-sized source postings, but I will not
carry unmoderated object postings, especially when other sites are
complaining about the volume in the group.
--
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!hplabs!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.news.group Subject: This abuse must stop! Message-ID: <4796@gatech.EDU> Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 13:01:18 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.4796 Posted: Sat Oct 18 13:01:18 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Oct-86 04:30:39 EDT Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Followup-To: net.news.group Distribution: na Organization: Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech Lines: 20