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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: What to do about binaries
Keywords: binaries binaries binaries
Message-ID: <10463@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 88 00:54:55 GMT
References: <6010@megaron.arizona.edu> <8749@netsys.UUCP> <3355@bsu-cs.UUCP> <923@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> <317@sdrc.UUCP> <243@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Indiana University
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In article <243@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
>just to fill up disk space?  the heart of the question is, should
>the non-leaf sites carry binaries just so the leafs can use them?

Should the non-leaf sites carry discussion groups just so the leaves can use
them?  Should they carry sources just so...?  Should they carry news feeds
just so...?  Most of the groups serve some special interest group; very few
are read by all subscribers.

One of the newsgroups (net.config? or something) just posted Brian Reid's
monthly survey of net usage.  The pc binaries group was way up there in
readership, it was up there in volume but there were lots more voluminous
groups, and its "cost-per-user-per-megabyte" rating was lower than a lot of
other groups too.  Fascinating reading for people who get all concerned
about the cost-effectiveness of the various groups.  (Comp.eniac.tcp-ip was
a big loser last month.)

> John "Evil USENET User" F. Haugh II          HECI Exploration Co, Inc., Dallas

You mean there's a Good USENET available?!?!?
-- 
bob,mon						(bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)
"In this position, the skier is flying in a complete stall..."