Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site polaris.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!polaris!herbie From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Topology, connectivity, and garbage Message-ID: <260@polaris.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 19:03:53 EST Article-I.D.: polaris.260 Posted: Fri Nov 8 19:03:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 16:36:32 EST References: <787@adobe.UUCP> <173@gould9.UUCP> <830@psivax.UUCP> Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) Organization: IBM TJ Watson RC Lines: 21 Summary: In article <830@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes: > Actually this can be carried further, after all "local areras" >*overlap*, so it should be possible to develope a chain of local, or >at least low-cost zone, calls all the way across the country. is the added propogation delay worth it? remember that the primary reason for the backbone sites is the reduce the propogation delay as well as to ensure that a large group of sites have a decent chance of getting ALL news. Herb Chong... I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... VNET,BITNET,NETNORTH,EARN: HERBIE AT YKTVMH UUCP: {allegra|cbosgd|cmcl2|decvax|ihnp4|seismo}!philabs!polaris!herbie CSNET: herbie.yktvmh@ibm-sj.csnet ARPA: herbie.yktvmh.ibm-sj.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa ======================================================================== DISCLAIMER: what you just read was produced by pouring lukewarm tea for 42 seconds onto 9 people chained to 6 Ouiji boards.