Amcnc.1060
net.micro
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!gsw
Mon Feb 22 22:43:12 1982
micros invade USENET ?

   I tend to disagree with the idea that micros, if given the
chance, will flood the net. There are a few reasons that make
this potential problem improbable. First of all most micro owners
do not have modems. Of those that do, most are only at 300 baud.
If a micro owner with a 300 baud modem attempts to read in the
net it could take a tremendous amount of time. And we are assuming,
of course, that this micro owner has the disk space to contain
it all. This same reason disqualifies any possibility that other
micro users, that may be a friend to the guy that brought the
news over originally. I certainly am not willing to have my
computer tied up for hours to transfer much of the news that
I dont even read (maybe the friend likes the news i dont like).
Another major reason for this idea's improbability concerns the
source of news for the micro. The network mainly consists of
computers that are used essentially as research, university,
commercial industry tools. Most (if not all) of these systems
would not take to having people call of their computer to

(opps... call up their computers to) transfer the news.
Of course they maybe able to get by for a while without being
question, but when lines are tied up for hours at a time
system personnel will most likely get suspicious. And also,
the only people who have accounts on machines that bring
in the news are most likely legitimate users who, after all,
could have read the news from the system itself without
the long wait and the multitude of 40 track floppies.


			Gregg Whitcomb,
			mcnc!gsw or wolfvax!gsw

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