woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) (01/17/91)
[ I've cross-posted this to can.usrgroup in which this item will be relevant to a current discussion. ] In article <601@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes: [... Kevin wrote a bunch of words about use and abuse of bitftp by UUCP only sites (esp. those in Canada which gateway through a very narrow pipe paid for out of university coffers) which seemed to indicate that he understood the problem (though only after having been told he was abusing it) ....] > I have received messages from several gateways indicating that they > would like me to ease off my requests. I test a lot of software. I > have a local 210Mb disk which fills up just about every week and I > turnover new software every week. UUCP was not designed to handle this > kind of load. Internet is. So, Kevin, getting your own 9600bps leased line to uunet next week? **** That's sarcasm, BTW. **** If you do agree that UUCP (esp. multi-hop transfer) isn't meant for this kind of load, can you kindly explain to us why you've been re-filling a 210Mb disk on a weekly basis by UUCP through a clogged Internet gateway without paying for it? Please stop doing this right now! If you alone are indeed receiving that much "mail", then your use alone amounts to a significant burden on the resources. Resources which are currently insufficient to serve the paying customers! Go buy the UUNET archives on tape! It's only $150.00us for an exabyte cartridge containing the entire 600 Mb! Debugging that much stuff should keep you busy for many years. Even if you've only been receiving a few (i.e. less than 10) megabytes per week, I'd say you'd used up your share of this resource for the next several years. -- Greg A. Woods woods@{eci386,gate,robohack,ontmoh,tmsoft}.UUCP ECI and UniForum Canada +1-416-443-1734 [h] +1-416-595-5425 [w] VE3TCP Toronto, Ontario CANADA Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible-ORWELL