Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric
From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: IDEA: reader-initiated sendme protocol
Summary: This sounds a lot like the hypertext design I'm working on
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Date: 7 Jul 88 15:57:14 GMT
References: <270@octopus.uucp> <9823@g.ms.uky.edu> <14877@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
Organization: First Zenarchist International
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In article <14877@oddjob.uchicago.edu>, matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU writes:
>One possible way to find the "nearest archive" ...
>
>Have each archive site periodically post something, perhaps a list of
>holdings.  Let each site compare the arrival time of each such
>article to its posting time and keep track of the quickest, with some
>filtering to remove glitches.

Somehow I missed the previous articles in this thread. This sounds a lot like
some aspects the hypertext design I'm working on as a followon to News 3.0.

If the originators of <270@octopus.uucp> and <9823@g.ms.uky.edu> still have
these on line, please send me your suggestions (yes, I know, this is itself
an instance of the sort of problem such a protocol would solve).
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