Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!dcs!wnp
From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How to eliminate the cost of over 1/5 (or more) of net traffic
Keywords: costs binaries
Message-ID: <87@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 88 12:25:23 GMT
References: <1616@looking.UUCP> <17@idsnh.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <17@idsnh.UUCP> ben@.UUCP (Ben Smith) writes:
>
>Many may feel that this sounds like a lot of work.  But if they were to
>consider that eventually they have to share the costs of sending non-critical
>data through a pricey communications system, they might see the common
>sense of using diskettes and land based mail. The above referenced article
>is sensible and should be used as a first draft of a RFC.
>-ben

The poster of the referenced article himself included the statement "It
probably won't work."

Why?

Currently, in many companies and organizations the cost of USENET transmissions
is assumed as a matter of course to be a part of the phone bill; no special
approval or budget category is reqired. I'm not sure that the management in
many of these organizations even knows what they are paying for.

If you reduce net traffic by putting voluminous groups onto distributable media,
these companies' financial officers will rejoice in the lower phone bill,
but fail to see why they should approve purchase requisitions or check requests
for the acquisition of source code which may or may not be relevant to the
company's purpose.

It's a lot easier to spend thousands of dollars on an already-approved item 
such as phone bills, than to spend a tenth of that amount on an unapproved,
unbudgeted item like public domain sources distributions.


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