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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
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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....

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