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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Sendsys fiasco
Summary: I got three sendsys requests, too.
Keywords: Webber net abuse
Message-ID: <2576@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 88 20:14:58 GMT
References: <106@carpet.WLK.COM>
Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP
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Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <106@carpet.WLK.COM>, bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
> I am irritated by something that happened today as I am sure other news
> administrators were.  I hope that I have not added to the flood if there
> is one.  I recall something similar about a portal user.  I got three
> sendsys messages:

	`Kitty' also received three separate sendsys requests all on the
same day.  I thought it unusual, but was not particularly irritated by
it.  I WAS rather irritated about a similar happening about a year ago
to a site to which we used to distribute news and mail - since our site
happened to pass the majority of the sendsys responses back to the originator
(I'm talking about some MEGAbytes worth of sendsys response traffic for
which we had to pay the toll costs.)
	The moral of the story is that sendsys messages on a netwide basis
generate HUGE amounts of traffic - and sendsys messages should not be sent
without damn good reason.

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