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From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Satellite netnews (software, etc)
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Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 07:26:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 24 07:26:44 1984
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Keywords: Duplicates, software, moderators

What I understand of the stargate news is that a site will receive
a (probably large) protion of it's news via sattelite. This portion
will be screened by a group of moderators (I'm not sure what for,
is it only to keep garbage out of the transmission, or are there
regulations as to what material can/can not be transmitted?).
I guess that the rest of the news is transferred in the current way.
This creates a big problem :
How will site A know that it shouldn't send a certain article to
site B, because site B has already received it by sattelite?
The IHAVE/SENDME protocol should probably be used, but I remember
some articles saying that this protocol is quite uneconomic.
If we want to cut phone bills by using sattelite news, I think that this
is an issue that should be addressed. It's quite useless to receive
sattelite news if all the articles *also* come in via phone....

One solution would be to recieve only sattelite news, but I wouldn't
like that (Re: the moderator discussion).
Another possible solution might be to let each site know that it's
neighbour has a sattelite connection, so that all articles with 'stargate'
in the path shouldn't be sent there, but this doesn't seem very
fair either. A site that is next to a backbone would receive everything
via telephone, since the stargate site will often be further down
the line than your site.

Am I seeing a problem that isn't there, or is this real?
-- 
	Jack Jansen, {seismo|philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack
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