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From: david@sesame.UUCP (David Watson)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: magic numbers
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 00:38:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 00:38:59 1985
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> 
>      ...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")