Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!amb From: amb@dasys1.UUCP (A. M. Boardman) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Auto-expiration of news Summary: What about article propogation? Keywords: newsgroup propogation Message-ID: <8048@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 88 08:37:17 GMT References: <1066@psuhcx.psu.edu> <2694@sultra.UUCP> Reply-To: amb@dasys1.UUCP (A. M. Boardman) Organization: Big Electric Cat PA Unix, NYC Lines: 19 In article <2694@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes: >On the other hand, if someone subscribes to a currently unavailable group, >the daemon would reactivate it. And vnews/readnews/whatever would inform >the reader that the group isn't currently carried, but will appear in a few >days. Of course, certain groups (such as comp.mail.maps) would have a special Under this system, how do you get articles to propogate to the rest of the net? Sample situation: backbone!feedsite!site-with-only-one-or-two-feeds If nobody on the feedsite(s) happened to subscribe to a particular newsgroup, all the stuff posted downstream from it in that group never gets out to the rest of the net. Think about it. --- "On a scale from one to ten, that's pretty bad." A.M.Boardman Big Electric Cat PA Unix ![hoptoad|phri|(uunet)]!dasys1!amb