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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: How robust will satellite distribution be?
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Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 05:29:38 EST
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There may not be a serious problem with many machines requesting
repeats.  For example, during the periods of higher bandwidth
on the stargate (presumably during the night) the stargate could
routinely send older articles that have been requested by any
number of sites during the day -- or even some older articles
that weren't requested at all, just on general principles.
There are all sorts of possibilities.

Of course, sites could also pick up lost articles from other
sites if they wanted to, or administrators could decide that
there were some articles (or groups) that they didn't want
to pick up (if lost due to system down time) at all.

The important thing to remember is that it doesn't cost any more
to send an article to ALL participating sites than to just one 
site using the bird.  It might well be good policy to repeat older
articles (those still online) occasionally just to help people
fill in any gaps.  Much of this will need to be determined
experimentally of course.

----

By the way, the stargate screeners mailing list is up.  It is
seismo!stargate-people.  It is for people willing to screen
netnews groups for the project, especially people whose sites
are willing to call stargate (in Atlanta) directly.

--Lauren--