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- From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Bots, Newsgroups, Protocols, Whatever
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 16:50:08 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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- References: <Dweiss-071292185149@chiba.hughes.american.edu> <Byx0Bz.1or@news.iastate.edu> <1gm7g8INN2u3@manuel.anu.edu.au>
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- In article <1gm7g8INN2u3@manuel.anu.edu.au> titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu) writes:
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- >>idle: Why are so many of you /away for extended periods of time?
- >>Arent you just as much strain on the net as an idle bot? I have heard
- >
- >yes that is correct, an idle user does use just as much bandwidth as an
- >idle bot, which is closed to zilch (since it is idling) .. but of course
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- except for the PINGs... depending on your particular client-server
- connection, these can be a problem (especially when some sort of
- dial-up lines are involved.)
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- Olaf
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