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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
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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.