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From: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: How robust will satellite distribution be?
Message-ID: <753@sdcsla.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 04:03:24 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcsla.753
Posted: Fri Dec 21 04:03:24 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 07:35:15 EST
Reply-To: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Organization: UC San Diego: Institute for Cognitive Science
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Keywords: reliability interruptibility
Summary: 

[Yes, Lauren, please proceed as you see fit.]

I'm curious as to how the satellite-broadcast scheme will take
power-failures and the like into account.

For example, is reception dependent upon the host computer being up?
[I.e., I assume the thing doesn't have its own disk.]

Although currently a site can stand missing many many hours
of netnews reception, I wonder whether this will be true
in the satellite system.   The problem that I see is that
the satellite system will become the backbone of netnews
distribution -- so, if a satellite (reception) site is down
for a while, whence will it get the news it missed?

I guess arrangements with the other satellite reception sites
can be made (at the expense of long-distance phone calls),
but... is there A Better Way?

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