herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) (12/03/85)
In article <243@mplvax.UUCP> rec@mplvax.UUCP (Richard Currier) writes: >As a News Administrator there is a simple solution to your problem. Turn off >the groups at your site. You can lower you phone bills and let those of us >who use the information in the groups get on with our jobs. if more that just a few backbone sites do this, the newsgroup is effectively killed across the entire net. you seem to be a leaf node of usenet where this is practical. net.flame exited without a whimper when virtually all backbone sites stopped transmitting it. that is the degree of influence that backbone sites have. Herb Chong... I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... VNET,BITNET,NETNORTH,EARN: HERBIE AT YKTVMH UUCP: {allegra|cbosgd|cmcl2|decvax|ihnp4|seismo}!philabs!polaris!herbie CSNET: herbie.yktvmh@ibm-sj.csnet ARPA: herbie.yktvmh.ibm-sj.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa ======================================================================== DISCLAIMER: what you just read was produced by pouring lukewarm tea for 42 seconds onto 9 people chained to 6 Ouiji boards.