Re: alt.fether.die.die.die

[khym@wixer.bga.com (Dave Huang)]

In article <C82KMD.IsK@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>In article <C8140J.KIA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>>  Every anti-fether message will be posted to approximately 50,000
>>machines.  Assume an average of 1K per message.  So you've got
>>50MB _PER MESSAGE_ worldwide being taken up by drivel. 
>
>Jawaid, get a grip.  Machines won't subscribe to a.f.d.d.d unless the news
>admin wants to, and most sites don't get many or even any alt groups.  You're
>blowing this way out of proportion.

Besides, does it really make a difference disk space-wise whether the
1K anti-fether messages (or in this case, discussion of anti-fether
messages :-) are posted to a.f.d.d.d or here on c.s.a2? I really doubt
it... However, I _would_ like to see all of this junk kept off the
newsgroups.
--
Dave Huang