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
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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.
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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu