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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: 24 Jun 1995 23:46:26 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3si13i$aog@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3sb2sr$rl8@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3sc9t4$2eh@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3sfcam$12n@pandora.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Larry Riedel <larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu> wrote: >I think that if there were 100 hackers responding to questions in >this group then it would not take each one 80% of their time! This is based on a wrong assumption. Due to the Usenet propagation delay, there will always be several people seeing the same article without seeing that there's already an answer posted. You can watch this just in this newsgroup. >I read almost every article in this group, and I don't think READING >the articles takes that much time. I think POSTING articles is what >takes time, and if that load were distributed among many more people, >then the load on each would be reasonable. READING articles doesn't take time, but THINKING about the articles does already take a significant amount of time, even without answering it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)