bill (12/21/82)
After looking over the most recent usenet map sent out by Karen Horton, I was rather impressed by the sheer number of hosts listed. I thought I'd compare the number of hosts listed in the map with the number of arpanet hosts in the host table on my local arpanet site (rutgers). Their table was dated 1/5/81. The count stood at: Arpanet: 372, Usenet: 421. This must say something? Comments, flames to net.followup. -Bill Schell Bell Labs, Murray Hill
smith@umn-cs.UUCP (06/06/83)
#R:allegra:-71400:umn-cs:700002:000:320 umn-cs!smith Jan 13 10:38:00 1983 Usenet only has a hundred more hosts than Arpanet?? I'm disappointed. I had expected double the number. There's no surprise that Usenet is bigger, it's just an example of positive feedback. Arpanet, on the other hand, is expensive to hook into and carefully controlled. Of course, it's also more reliable. Rick.