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  1. Newsgroups: alt.irc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage!news
  3. From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
  4. Subject: Re: Supidity of the Lambs ! (Services)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.101006.26635@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
  6. Sender: news@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: plod.cbme.unsw.edu.au
  8. Organization: University of New South Wales
  9. References: <1992Nov17.143434.22778@njitgw.njit.edu>
  10. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:10:06 GMT
  11. Lines: 18
  12.  
  13. From article <1992Nov17.143434.22778@njitgw.njit.edu>, by lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee):
  14. >     Speaking about wasting bandwidth, I would like to thank you Titus
  15. >  for taking so much care in not doing that yourself. That lovely wall message
  16. >  to all of *.edu about some idiots birthday really touched me, and was well
  17. >  worth the HUGE waste in bandwidth.
  18.  
  19. Oh yeah, real huge. It happens to be less than the bandwidth taken up by
  20. a single MODE command. Now, with a bot generating MODE commands willy-nilly,
  21. that bot is likely to waste far, far more bandwidth.
  22.  
  23. >             Lawrence C Mc Abee.
  24. >             (say NO to idiots)
  25.  
  26. I couldn't agree more. Get a clue before you post.
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  28. __________________________________________________________________________
  29. troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU    Overworked, overcommited and always multitasking.
  30. Patron of SNUB (Say NO to Unattended Bots)
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