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From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Sorry, I am getting very confused
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Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 14:35:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 14 14:35:27 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 23:41:59 EDT
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Am I imagining this, or are we all having a severe communications problem?:

It seems every time someone comes up with a suggestion to increase
bandwidth or otherwise decrease transmission costs, the reply is "That's
not the problem, the problem is there's too much crud, that would only
encourage it"

It seems every time someone comes up with a suggestion to help deal with
the crud, the reply is "That's not the problem, the problem is
transmission costs [usually followed with, "you're not a backbone, you
don't understand"], even if we had all good articles it will soon grow
too big, that would only encourage it"

I don't doubt they are both true, they don't quite contradict (except
the way one is consistently presented as an argument against the other.)
In fact, ideally both problems get dealt with.

Maybe this is why this endless discussion goes nowhere (and goes everywhere.)

I wonder if what is really needed is for some number of those people
interested to go meet somewhere (physically.) I think the propagation
delays (and short memories) are fostering this.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

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