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!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!vu44!jack From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Satellite netnews (software, etc) Message-ID: <532@vu44.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 07:26:44 EST Article-I.D.: vu44.532 Posted: Mon Dec 24 07:26:44 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Dec-84 01:58:43 EST References: <466@vortex.UUCP> <1871@sun.uucp> <1295@eosp1.UUCP> <491@ut-sally.UUCP> <409@amdcad.UUCP> <11371@gatech.UUCP> Organization: The Retarded Programmers Home, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 28 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 or ...!vu44!htsa!jack