root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (09/14/85)
Am I imagining this, or are we all having a severe communications problem?: It seems every time someone comes up with a suggestion to increase bandwidth or otherwise decrease transmission costs, the reply is "That's not the problem, the problem is there's too much crud, that would only encourage it" It seems every time someone comes up with a suggestion to help deal with the crud, the reply is "That's not the problem, the problem is transmission costs [usually followed with, "you're not a backbone, you don't understand"], even if we had all good articles it will soon grow too big, that would only encourage it" I don't doubt they are both true, they don't quite contradict (except the way one is consistently presented as an argument against the other.) In fact, ideally both problems get dealt with. Maybe this is why this endless discussion goes nowhere (and goes everywhere.) I wonder if what is really needed is for some number of those people interested to go meet somewhere (physically.) I think the propagation delays (and short memories) are fostering this. -Barry Shein, Boston University Help! I'm trapped in an onionionionionionionion...