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From: john@x.UUCP (John Woods)
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Subject: Re: net overload-- comments and suggestions
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Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 11:58:26 EST
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Having accompanied !jj in the trek from a USENET you could draw on
one type-written page to today, I generally agree with his conclusions.
However, I think that it is not that "the current crop is the..." worst
ever; I can recall a few cheeseheads from the early days (``Bimmler'' (which
may or may not have been Bimmler) and erewhon!root (which lead to the first
Repetitive-Signature-Messages!) come to mind).  Unfortunately, the problem
is this:  when 5 out of 500 people are generating garbage, the amount of
time reading garbage (and even responses to said garbage) is small.  When
200 out of 20000 people are generating garbage [The conclusion is left as
an exercise for the reader].

Perhaps USENET will collapse, not under the weight of the traffic, but under
the sheer weight of contributors.

			Not afraid to let postnews sign my name,
			(now there's a Blast from the Past!)
-- 
John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA

Sorry, I don't feel deep right now.