On Aug 14 11:29 96, George Baumann of 1:232/38 wrote:
BC>> But PGP and/or digital
BC>> signatures are a coming standard and way of life
GB>  *NIX* the sigs for bandwidth and disk space sake!
I used to advocate a lot of bandwidth-saving measures until I spent a
stint as NEC of my net and ran some statistical analysis of individual
echoes on the backbone.  Read some of the echoes that are popular with
teenagers and children (TEEN, CHATTER, TREK and etc) and monitor the
echo traffic.  Some of these echos can exceed 250 msgs per day!
  I don't remember the exact numbers but wound up concluding that
maybe 15 percent of the backbone conferences constitute approx 85
percent of the bandwidth used and therefore worrying about individual
message content such as signature lines is pointless.  Let it Go.
Just as governments can't legislate morality no matter how hard they
try, networks cannot design a paradigm that guarantees dense message
content.  It may not even be desirable to do so.
(credentials)  Some of you who ran or run Opus BBS may remember me as
the author of AnaLog (TM) system activity analyzer.
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