From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!leichter
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: *****To:  Maintainer of newsgroup net.micro ==> info-micro link*****
Article-I.D.: yale-com.875
Posted: Sun Feb 13 08:52:16 1983
Received: Tue Feb 15 07:23:52 1983

[Sorry to post to the whole group; I know of no way to reach my addressee
directly.]

A couple of days ago I sent out follow-ups to two notes in this group.  The
follow-ups were apparently picked up by a forwarder and sent on to info-micro
subscribers - except that 10 or so of them were on machines that were unreach-
able for a day.  Some program then sent me individual mail messages about each
person and each item.  The messages - which were from "ucbvax!Mailer", - were
each over 1000 bytes long.  That's an awful lot of bytes of utterly useless
information to be splattering across Usenet.  Is this going to happen every
time I post here?  Should I expect 20000 more bytes of junk as a response to
this note?  Should I also expect ANOTHER 20000 bytes when the 3-day limit
mentioned in the first notices expires?

How about NOT sending this stuff - or maybe sending just one notification per
item being forwarded?  If the current situation becomes the norm, we can expect
Usenet to be transmitting essentially nothing but error messages in a short
time.
							-- Jerry
						decvax!yale-comix!leichter