From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: people who need mail paths - (nf) Article-I.D.: floyd.1335 Posted: Wed Mar 23 07:22:49 1983 Received: Thu Mar 24 07:44:41 1983 References: nbires.113 Wake up friends. Some guy just said that some sites carry the bulk of netnews traffic. He mentioned decvax and ucbvax. Maybe DEC has a couple of USENET machines, maybe UCB has a dozen. Uhm, excuse me. There's this company called Bell Telephone Laboratories which has HUNDREDS of machines on the net, and BTL forwards more mail and news than even (!) decvax. By far. I don't want to hear some college kid saying "why shouldn't they, it's all telco revenue anyway?" Telco revenue doesn't get credited to our BTL organizations, but our telephone bills get taken out of BTL budgets. Maybe I'm a little crabby this early in the morning, but I just can't understand how senseless some people can be. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491