Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!polya!carcoar!andy From: andy@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: "NNTP has had a number of very bad effects on the net..." Message-ID: <3212@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 11 Jul 88 23:00:30 GMT References: <1830@looking.UUCP><4277@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <4414@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Sender: news@polya.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: andy@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 19 In article <4414@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes: >It seems like NNTP has had two effects -- it has made news cheaper, >because it's more effecient and it makes it easier for news to go over >the internet, but on the other hand it's made news a lot quicker, thus >increasing volume. It isn't clear that faster propagation causes more volume. For one, it decreases the interval for redundant followups; this reduces their number. (Of course, faster propagation only affects followups from people who read all of the news in a group before responding to a message, but those people aren't as rare as they seem.) Increasing the propagation time guarantees that more people will followup because they can't see followups that haven't reached them yet. -andy ---- UUCP: {arpa gateways, decwrl, uunet, rutgers}!polya.stanford.edu!andy ARPA: andy@polya.stanford.edu (415) 329-1718/723-3088 home/cubicle