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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga,net.news.group
Subject: Re: commercialism and net.micro.amiga going the way of .mac
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 11:52:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 11:52:58 1985
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In article <5690@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>
>The reason backbones have such large phone bills is because they have
>a lot of long distance news feeds in addition to the six or so local
>news feeds. If everyone had only local news feeds, there would be
>many areas isolated from each other. In California, for example,
>there's no way to reach LA from SF without a long distance call.
>Even if you were willing to route it through as many inbetween sites
>as needed, there aren't enough to form a local call only chain.
>
>The backbone concept also holds down the propagation delay. It's bad
>now but it would be much worse without the backbones.

	But why do they have to be *really* long distance, wouldn't
two or three moderate distance connections be better than one
ultra-long connection? I mean aren't there sites *between* SF and LA,
like perhaps Sacramento(or Big Sur :-))?? Whya does it have to be a
*single* jump all that way, and the LA East coast(ihnp4) connections
are simply absurd! Basically with this size of a net we need three or
four times as many "backbone" sites, in which case hte backbone site
costs *wouldn't* be that much higher! I would be very willing to put
up with another day or two in propagation delays if it would help to
retain the *interesting* discussion groups on the net! It is a matter
of priorities, which is more important speed or convienience?
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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