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- From: chuckb@milton.u.washington.edu (Chuck Bass)
- Subject: Re: 4.0.5 distribution bottleneck
- Message-ID: <chuckb.714590452@milton>
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 17:20:52 GMT
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- That sounds like a great idea but... I don't think that the net
- was created for commercial companies to avoid paying for
- distribution costs of their newest software. The way people
- complain (no flames please ;-) about wasted bandwidth I can see
- the war start when 5000 Indigo user are ftp'ing sgi.com for
- 50Megs of eoe1 & eoe2.
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- Chuck Bass
- College of Forest Systems Engineering
- University of Washington
- chuckb@u.washington.edu
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