Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ittral.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!ittral!malloy From: malloy@ittral.UUCP (William P. Malloy) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: A short explanation as to why people object to net.*.mac Message-ID: <224@ittral.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 10:29:15 EST Article-I.D.: ittral.224 Posted: Sat Nov 2 10:29:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 22:01:33 EST Reply-To: malloy@ittral.UUCP (William P. Malloy) Organization: ITT Telecom B&CC Eng. Group, Raleigh, NC Lines: 24 Keywords: mac cost apple USENET sources Posted to the newsgroup mod.newslists, there is a monthly set of articles by Rick Adams at site ``siesmo'' in which he keeps track of the network traffic flow. As of last month this was the latest information. NOTE: net.sources.mac was first accounting for 9.0% of the entire net, net.micro.mac is fourth and takes up 3.6% of the volume of the entire network. % of RANK total 1 877.6 61 27.42 9.0% 9.0% net.sources.mac (2.8) 4 354.1 251 11.07 3.6% 23.7% net.micro.mac (1.8) % of total volume of USENET 12.6% So all together this MAC stuff takes up OVER 1/8th of the entire USENET for a small, insignificant, closed architecture, slow, personal computer. Not only that NO one at my site even has a MAC! If you all like reading this volume so much, why don't you set up your own net and/or join CompuServe and pay your own bills. How can anyone do "real" work on a machine you can't really GET at. It must be like trying to play the piano wearing boxing gloves. I feel sorry for you. =William P. Malloy -- Address: William P. Malloy, ITT-BSG, B & CC Engineering Group, Raleigh NC {mcnc, ihnp4!burl, ncsu, decvax!ittatc}!ittral!malloy