Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!bionet!uwm.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Bandwidth Wasters Hall of Fame for alt.sources Message-ID: <1989Sep22.224836.13402@rpi.edu> Date: 22 Sep 89 22:48:36 GMT References: <13743@well.UUCP> Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: xanthian@well.UUCP's message of 22 Sep 89 11:34:20 GMT In <13743@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: Kent> BANDWIDTH WASTERS HALL OF FAME Kent> /usr/spool/news/alt/sources Kent> Bytes Volume Offending Kent> Wasted Share Articles Guilty Party Kent> 730081 44.23% 18 pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Kent> 294802 17.86% 6 mark@unix386.Convergent.COM (Mark Nudelman) Kent> 195626 11.85% 5 lwall@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Larry Wall) Kent> [A shar file of the scripts used to create this article was Kent> posted to alt.sources by the author, Kent Paul Dolan.] This is a complete crock. I really hope people don't start wasting more bandwith all over the net with this crap. I've already seen two, one in alt.sources and one in news.groups. To say that Jef, Mark and Larry are guilty parties of wasting bytes by posting offending articles is such a ridiculous thing. The group is for sources, mutton head! And that's what they bloody well provided!!! PBM, less and upgrades to Perl. These are very useful programmes to many people on the net but your stupid script brands them as some sort of criminals. Get a clue, get a life and stop wasting our time with this shit. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))