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 Message-ID: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 Lines: 18 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). -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: ..!{uunet,att,rutgers!vu-vlsi}!snark!eric Smail: eric@snark.UUCP Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718