Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version VT1.00C 11/1/84; site vortex.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!vortex!lauren From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: How robust will satellite distribution be? Message-ID: <481@vortex.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 05:29:38 EST Article-I.D.: vortex.481 Posted: Tue Dec 25 05:29:38 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Dec-84 04:20:25 EST References: <790@milo.UUCP> Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles Lines: 28 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--