Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!teletron!andrew From: andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Too much for the reader? Message-ID: <402@teletron.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 17:01:27 GMT References:<397@teletron.UUCP> <4278@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Organization: TeleTronic Communications Ltd., Edmonton, Alta. Lines: 27 In article <4278@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes: |>In the referenced article, andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott) writes: |> |> I'm *obligated* to carry those groups. | | Whoa! Please show me the obligation that I signed that forces me | to commit the resources of my system for your benefit? Well, I never signed anything, but an informal "handshake" obligation _does_ exist between our site, our upstream feed, and our downstream feeds. | What's really going on is that every site on USENET (with some | exceptions) is doing every other site on USENET a big favor, and | occasionally some of them can't afford the favor any more. If you | were trained properly by your parents, you'll thank them nicely | for the favor you got, and offer to return it some day. I see this | happen a lot more often than I see system admins screaming about | being cut off. I can see this happening too. It's unfortunate, as I believe that there are "Better Ways" of doing things. I'm still not convinced that a steadily increasing volume on USENET is a Good Thing. I'd like to carry everything. I'd much rather see a reduction of volume in each newsgroup than a reduction of newsgroups carried by my site. Perhaps I'm just too selfish. -- Andrew Scott andrew@teletron.uucp - or - {codas, ubc-cs, watmath, ..}!alberta!teletron!andrew