the end is near

[arpavax:mark]

From CSVAX:fateman Wed May 13 16:48:00 1981
To: mark
Subject: junk mail and netnews
Cc: j:larry vaxcom

I think there should not be any individual copies of human-nets or
any of the "junk-mail" messages sent or stored on any machine at
Berkeley. That there are multiple copies of this sent to individuals
from Ernie to Cory and perhaps elsewhere is not permissible. I
think that "getting flak from users" is not the way to guide system
development. I suggest that individual names be removed from
these lists immediately. If the ethernet changes things so
that sending messages is free and fast, they can be put back on.

I can't say I disagree with this. I will shortly change the human-nets
and sf-lovers mailing lists on CSVAX to ONLY feed into netnews. This way
only one copy has to be stored on CSVAX, and only one copy will be sent
to each other machine. Those of you who are not on a netnews machine
should make other arrangements - for example, it would be possible for
netnews to forward one copy of these lists to, say, C:human-nets, and
it could be redistributed from there. For anyone out in uucp land who
is getting a direct mailing, you should make arrangements to get it
from a netnews machine - there are lots of them out there.

This is especially critical right now because all of the printers
on CSVAX are down, and people are jamming the 1200 baud network link
to cory with printouts. There is no excuse for duplicate traffic under
such circumstances.

You say netnews is too slow? TOO BAD. While a new, faster version is
being worked on, the current situation is that we just don't have the
resources to be mailing individual copies. It's the end of the quarter
and all the machines are already overloaded. (And remember - we could
cut it off completely.)

Mark Horton