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- From: cd866@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc Sira)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: GEnieLamp
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 22:46:13 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov12.140842.18997@b8.b8.ingr.com> <1992Nov10.174223.13562@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Nov11.164127.9816@b8.b8.ingr.com> <1992Nov11.232320.24479@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
- Reply-To: cd866@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Marc Sira)
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- In a previous article, scott@b8.b8.ingr.com (Scott Gentry) says:
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- >toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira) writes:
- >>The "wasted bandwidth" thing is invoked so often, and consumes so much
- >>bandwidth, that it carries no weight at all anymore. If we were all really
- >>so concerned about bandwidth usage, Usenet would not exist, or barely exist.
- >
- >Spoken like someone who doesn't know any better. My site is a news relay
- >to six other sites. To say bandwidth doesn't matter is a joke. Oh, disk
- >space matters, too.
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- Uh-huh...my point, Scott, was that so much bandwidth is wasted every day
- (right now, for instance) that to complain about the few lines of ads in
- the newsletter is absurd. Bandwidth is also expended without use if you
- choose to answer a message without actually reading the whole thing, and
- by quoting so as to misrepresent.
-
- And, I am aware that advertising is verboten on the Internet...I'd be
- perfectly happy if it were verboten in this society. Again, this was my
- point - if you're going to whine about this issue, at least whine about
- the fact of advertising, not the specific amount of bandwidth it
- consumes.
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