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From: jeff1@garfield.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Traffic Reduction
Message-ID: <4326@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 21:36:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 21:36:26 1985
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Reply-To: jeff1@garfield.UUCP (Jeff Sparkes)
Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's
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Summary: 

In article <827@rlgvax.UUCP> jack@rlgvax.UUCP (Jack Waugh) writes:
>2) Modify the news software to allow anyone to cancel any article.

	Unfortunately, that would only cut down on the number of articles
seen.  A canceled article still gets distributed to everyone, and then the
cancellation comes along and removes it.  However, by now the article has
been batched and/or sent on to other sites.
	Has anybody modified the news software so that it doesn't do this?
Maybe a list of canceled articles could be kept, and before actually sending
the batched article, make sure it's not in the list.  
	This would cut down on traffic a bit. (especially if it's done by the
backbone sites)  Maybe not a whole lot, but every little bit helps.
	This would also get rid of cancellation messages.  We don't get all
the newsgroups, but we still get cancellations for all of them since they
are sent through control.
	
Jeff Sparkes
jeff1@garfield.UUCP
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