Xref: utzoo news.misc:1499 news.config:654 Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!pyramid!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!duncan From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) Newsgroups: news.misc,news.config Subject: Re: The USENET Backbone (Updated: 18 May 1988) Message-ID: <13708@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 2 Jun 88 22:44:35 GMT References: <4245@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <7348@swan.ulowell.edu> Reply-To: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 40 In article <7348@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes: > >I don't understand some of the map. Like, why are ulysses, ubc-cs and >vucomp on there, all dead ends > It really hurts to have our legitimacy questioned like this -- and by someone who didn't take the time to spell our name right either :-) From spaf's recent backbone map posting (<4245@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>) ... >A Usenet "backbone" site is one which exchanges every (non-local) news >article it receives with at least two other backbone sites; or which is >the main newsfeed for a particular geographical area (e.g., Australia) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ... > vuwcomp Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand - that's a geographical area somewhat distant from North America. Check us out in your atlas - we're just to the right of Australia. >I submit that a 'backbone' link is to carry the news fast between >other backbone links, and I don't see these sites as doing that >(except for their leaf nodes ... hell, everybody does that). Last time I looked there were no other backbone sites in NZ to feed. But we do feed news to 4 non-leaf and 5 leaf nodes. Sorry that's not many by your standards, but NZ is a small country, and there are only about 20 usenet sites here. > (and vucomp a restricted link at that)? Our X.25 cost's are substantially higher than the $.0025/Kb used by Brian Reid in his latest "Usenet Readership Report". Now if you are offering to establish a news feed to us (and pay for it) we will be quite happy to carry all the soc.* and talk.* drivel. -- Duncan Domain: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz Path: ...!uunet!vuwcomp!duncan