From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: new newsgroup: net.news.config
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2620
Posted: Fri Sep 10 10:42:54 1982
Received: Sat Sep 11 02:19:50 1982
References: unc.3948

smb has an excellent idea, and I encourage sites to have alternate
paths, especially if they only have one major news feed.

One other thought - it seems to be quite common for a site to have
several entries in their sys file that only transmit "to.foo"
newsgroups, just to keep the link working.  It's probably a good
idea to add "all.news.config" to these "to.foo" entries.

Of course, if you don't have a uucp (or whatever the local transmission
medium is for news) link to site X, you can't send them news over it.
But sites that totally depend on one other site polling them for uucp
probably ought to think about speaking to some other places too, just
to increase reliability.

	Mark