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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:51:12 EDT
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- From: "Bruce E. Nevin" <bnevin@CCB.BBN.COM>
- Subject: impact of repro command
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- [From: Bruce Nevin (Tue 920818 14:38:05)]
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- Bill says:
-
- >The repro command
- >sends your file back to you. But if everybody did that, the network
- >capacity would be halved.
-
- You'll have to explain your reasoning.
-
- As I see it, CSG-L is not a network. It is a set of subscribers on a
- number of networks in or connected to the Internet (BitNet, MilNet,
- CSnet, ARPAnet [is that still what the .com domain is called?], and so
- on). The *capacity* of each network to bear traffic is not affected by
- the listserver sending one more copy of each message that it
- distributes. Nor is the capacity of the networks, nor of the listserv
- software nor the host that it is running on appreciably challenged by
- this increment of email traffic--if it were, we should worry right away
- about limiting the growth of CSG-L, and send only short messages at
- carefully coordinated intervals. Before that, many system
- administrators at many sites would be budgeting to purchase increased
- computing capacity, and network analysts would be urging the purchase
- and installation of more network nodes to alleviate bottlenecks.
-
- Am I missing your point here?
-
- Bruce
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