Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site vu44.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!vu44!jack From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Restricting news (also stargate) Message-ID: <538@vu44.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 09:31:29 EST Article-I.D.: vu44.538 Posted: Fri Dec 28 09:31:29 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Dec-84 00:11:55 EST References: <154@ski.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Retarded Programmers Home, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 31 Keywords: distribution, restricting news, stargate (ski!jkh asks for a way to restrict news *from his own site*) What you propose is very difficult in the current implementation, because you don't ask for articles, you get them sent. The current situation is that your feed says "GnaGnaGna, lets send him some news, GnaGnaGna", and then stuffs 1.5Mb worth of rubbish down your dialup. You can either swallow it, or suffocate in it. A few of the disadvantages of this system are: - If you are fed by a construction like site1----------site2 | | +--poor_you----+ where site1 and site2 call each other more often than you, you get *every* article twice, and *you'll* have to discard the duplicates. - You cannot reuquest retransmission of an article in a simple way. - You cannot decide what groups to receive, without bothering all of your feeds. And probably lots of others, if you think about it. Probably it's about time that the protocol used to exchange news between sites is reconsidered, especially with the stargate stuff coming up. The current way of telling where an article should be sent will *never* work if you decide to get some of your news via stargate, and some via phone. -- Jack Jansen, {seismo|philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack or ...!vu44!htsa!jack If *this* is my opinion, I wasn't sober at the time.