Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version VT1.00C 11/1/84; site vortex.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!vortex!lauren From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Article on Computer Message Systems Message-ID: <706@vortex.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 21:59:32 EDT Article-I.D.: vortex.706 Posted: Mon Jul 8 21:59:32 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:08:37 EDT References: <6257@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles Lines: 11 Unfortunately, these studies tend to look at much more limited systems than we're dealing with here, and usually systems where everybody is paying for virtually everything right up front. (Compuserve is a typical model). Usenet represents a unique entity with unique problems--partly technical, partly sociological. But as new sites continue to join Usenet, and each site has the ability to broadcast anything and everything to every other site, the sheer traffic volume continues to make other "services" look like microbes next to a mountain in comparison... --Lauren--