Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Schizophrenic Solipsist) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: IDEA: reader-initiated sendme protocol Message-ID: <14877@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> Date: 6 Jul 88 20:48:09 GMT References: <270@octopus.UUCP> <9823@g.ms.uky.edu> Organization: Koyaanisqatsi Lines: 13 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. This supposes that the propAgation of these articles resembles the route that archive requests and responses will take. It should be mandated to be so, since other routes may not be approved for netnews use. ________________________________________________________ Matt Crawford matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu