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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:57:31 -0500
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- From: "Gary A. Cziko" <g-cziko@UIUC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: impact of repro command
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- [from Gary Cziko 920818.1453]
-
- Bruce Nevin (Tue 920818 14:38:05) says:
-
- >
- >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.
-
- Doesn't make much sense to me either. If there are 101 people on the
- CSGnet, if person 1 sends a post, it goes out to 100 other people (default
- is not to send post back to sender). If person 1 uses the repro option to
- receive his own post back, the post now goes out to 101 people instead of
- 100. This is a 1% increase in traffic, not a 100% increase. If everyone
- on the list uses the repro option, the result is the same, 101 message
- instead of 100 for each post.
-
- Moral: Use the repro option of you want your own messages back. But then
- to be consistent you should also be leaving messages for yourself on your
- answering machine
-
- Just another reason to be suspicious of the mathematical reasoning of
- physicists!--Gary
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