Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!bungia!cimcor!mike From: mike@cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: v16i090: Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory, Part01/49 Message-ID: <611@cimcor.mn.org> Date: 9 Dec 88 20:06:39 GMT References: <1527@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Organization: Grenier & friends, Forest Lake, MN Lines: 32 From article <1527@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, by root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center): >> In article <1280@vsi1.UUCP>, lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes: >> > >> > HEY! 3MB of posting for extremely limited interest? $ $ Hey!!! $ $ Just because this information is not system programmer oriented $ doesn't mean its interest is narrowlly limited. $ Well, my guess that it will be actually used by only a few sites. I think one could argue that the GAO dataset is not a source and perhaps should not have been posted to the comp.sources.unix group. The real question is whether a large posting will be used by a large number of sites. I.e. is the site to size ratio above some certain threshold? Perhaps a ratio like (percent of all sites who will use posting/ megabytes) should be greater than 2 or something. Say GAO will be used by 1 percent of the sites. It would be rejected because 1 percent/3meg is less than 2. Of course, who really knows how many sites will use GAO...so please don't flame me, its just a made up example! Small postings comming out of comp.sources.misc would be justified even if for only a few people if the size is small. I don't want to discourage large postings as long as they are useful. -Mike Grenier mike@cimcor.mn.org