Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site sesame.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!talcott!sesame!david From: david@sesame.UUCP (David Watson) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: magic numbers Message-ID: <292@sesame.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 00:38:59 EDT Article-I.D.: sesame.292 Posted: Thu Aug 22 00:38:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:52:07 EDT References: <745@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Free-Access Unix in Boston Lines: 20 > > ...30 seems like a good number for a mailing list to me... > ...It's time again to take a more global view of the network... > ...The time has come to step back, take a breath, and think a little > before we try continue with "business as usual" and lead ourselves > farther down the path to trouble. > > --Lauren-- Once more, Lauren has warned everyone to pare the news volume because the present network is reaching its limits. He is correct to do so repeatedly, because, judging by the recent volume (and signal-to-noise ratio) of Net traffic, no one is listening. Bravo, Lauren. I hope that two years from now, when we may all have to be very nostalgic about a great net we once knew, you'll get remembered for sounding the alarm. -David Watson (...talcott!sesame!david) (a Usenet optimist before I administered a system, now a "realist")