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- From: schafer@is.rice.edu (Richard Alan Schafer)
- Subject: Re: Bitnet vs Internet
- Message-ID: <BuMLrr.MGJ@rice.edu>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Rice University
- References: <IBM-MAIN%92091411374489@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:31:02 GMT
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- And if your management starts asking why you're spending 30% of your mainframe
- (at least) passing traffic from one place on BITNET to another, will the
- ability to run your own LISTSERV for free (instead of paying Eric something,
- presumably) really convince your management that BITNET is worthwhile?
-
- And don't forget the additional load that is harder to track of files coming
- into your LISTSERV, then being exploded back out again, appearing like traffic
- actually being delivered to your site or being sent from your site.
-
- Yes, BITNET is probably still worth doing for a little while longer. But
- many of us are going to find keeping it going harder and harder to justify
- to our management, should our management ever realize just how much of our
- high-priced hardware is being given to the rest of the world.
-
- --
- Richard
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