Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!ames!killer!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: High Volume Calls For New Approach Summary: Fascist News Admin ... Message-ID: <9213@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 8 Dec 88 05:10:09 GMT References: <26469@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <267@ssbn.WLK.COM>Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 16 In article karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >It's more efficient for massfeed sites to have all downstream feeds be >relatively simple in terms of distribution, as opposed to worrying >about the Mbyte volume going over the lines. One last item - I have no qualms about telling a downstream site to feed someone else. I have yet to run into a situation where someone refused. Twigs and leafs may be better able to handle Bill's obfuscated sys line by virtue of seeing a smaller slice of the entire news stream. Perhaps that is what is saving me - I don't take talk or soc ;-) -- John F. Haugh II +-Cat of the Week:--------------_ /|- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 |Aren't you absolutely sick and \'o.O' InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US |tired of looking at these damn =(___)= UucpNet : !killer!rpp386!jfh +things in everybody's .sig?-------U---