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From: lampson@crvax1.DEC (Mike Lampson - Loc/MS:DDO - DTN 423-6141)
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Subject: Re: A short explanation as to why people object to net.*.mac
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 09:54:25 EST
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  William P. Malloy  ...!decvax!ittatc!ittral!malloy ... writes

> Subject: A short explanation as to why people object to net.*.mac
> 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.  
>
> Address: William P. Malloy, ITT-BSG, B & CC Engineering Group, Raleigh NC
>         {mcnc, ihnp4!burl, ncsu, decvax!ittatc}!ittral!malloy

	The large volume of net.*.mac should show how valuable these groups
are to a relatively large part of the net.  I don't think that an 
insignificant number of people could generate this many postings to 
net.*.mac.
	Also, there is not that much reposting going on in net.sources.mac 
these days (at least the last 4-5 months [long before this debate started]).
There are a lot of requests for "missing postings", but these are usually 
mailed to the person who did not get them.

Disclaimer: These options are my own are in no way represent those of Digital
	Equipment Corporation or Northwestern University.

Mike Lampson

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