Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxqq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxqq!uname From: uname@pyuxqq.UUCP (Admin) Newsgroups: net.general Subject: How to save the net from overload Message-ID: <626@pyuxqq.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 17:25:42 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxqq.626 Posted: Tue Jun 5 17:25:42 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 05:12:04 EDT Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 13 The net is beginning to be swamped with the volume of messages. I notice several people are submitting multiple long messages to the same group. Something should be done to cut down the number of submissions. I have a suggestion: I wish each system administrator (SA) would set up their machine(s) to truncate all messages > 24 lines, one screen full. If they would do this, we would soon see short, to the point, messages from all these people that are afflicted with the verbage virus. If the SA's would also disallow more than 1 msg/person/group/day, I think the volume of messages being sent over the net would greatly decrease. Its time some action was taken against those with keyboard diarrhea, before some key net site pulls out altogether.