Xref: utzoo news.config:702 news.admin:2854 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!upba!eecae!mailrus!emv From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.config,news.admin Subject: Re: Great Lakes news backbone Message-ID: <548@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Date: 26 Jun 88 21:21:18 GMT References: <537@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Sender: usenet@mailrus.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 36 In article <537@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: > >I'm soliciting comments on the organization of a usenet >news backbone for the Midwest. I have in mind (more >or less) the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, >Indiana, Ohio, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York, >as well as the province of Ontario. I thank the several news administrators who sent me mail regarding this posting. It appears as though there's as much co-operation in the area as I expected, and I anticipate that this effort to increase connectivity throughout the Midwest will prove generally useful. From looking at logs here, it appears that the usenet "backbone" has several unintended members. Taking a look just at the articles appearing at this nntp-only site from uunet shows that most of them come through 3 or 4 paths, only one of which is mostly made up of "official" backbone members. There are also a surprising number of multiple cross-country hops that show up. If you are a site on the internet in the midwestern states listed above, and you find that articles arriving at your site take an extraordinarily long Path: in getting there, you are welcome to contact me to arrange a partial or backup feed to trim down these paths and get articles more efficently. If you are a site on the internet that acts as a regional hub or part of a regional backbone, I'm interested in exchanging locally generated news. A quick scan of my articles here indicates that a site in the Pacific Northwest and in the southeast would be likely to be quite helpful. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, usenet news admin, U of Michigan mail group.