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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
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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
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Address: William P. Malloy, ITT-BSG, B & CC Engineering Group, Raleigh NC
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