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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Let's talk about phone bills
Message-ID: <827@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 10:27:21 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.827
Posted: Fri Nov  1 10:27:21 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:41:12 EST
References: <779@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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In article <779@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes:
>
>Question:  What gains can be made in terms of more carefully chosen
>news connections?  Can they be maintained separately from regular
>uucp/mail connections? (I doubt it).  Maybe I don't have the big
>picture (I *know* I don't have the big picture) but maybe some gains
>can be made in other ways than nuking newsgroups so that the wants
>of the many are not serviced at the expense of the few.
>
>Comments?
>
	This sounds like a good idea to me! Does anyone have any idea
how to go about implementing it? Perhaps if news admins of sites
*recieving* thier news from distant sites could look for closer sites
to use as news feeds and arrange to switch to the local site it would
help. Especially if the remote site were a backbone site. Maybe
backbone sites that are feeding more than on remote site in a given
geographical area could mail them a suggestion to arrange local
cross-feeding. Maybe more backbone sites with carefully chosen
connections would alleviate the problem.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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