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- From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
- Newsgroups: houston.general
- Subject: Re: News Feed (LONG)
- Message-ID: <087LKTL@taronga.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:10:56 GMT
- References: <X24LK49@taronga.com> <VmeauB1w165w@medley.ssdl.com>
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- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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- In article <VmeauB1w165w@medley.ssdl.com> bert@medley.ssdl.com writes:
- >> Can you justify this with numbers?
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- >Gil already has.
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- He's calculated how long a full feed will take.
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- What I want to know is, how does he figure anyone really needs a full feed?
-
- >Agreed. Now how do we go about setting up the network.
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- Everyone gets together and comes up with a list of the groups they want.
- Then they come up with a list of the groups they feel comfortable carrying.
- Like... I can provide one full feed of comp.unix, that sort of thing.
-
- >A full feed backbone
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- Why?
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- >A partial feed backbone whose sum is a full feed
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- This assumes the coverage of part 1 adds up to a full feed. If nobody wants
- talk.politics.fijian then nobody need carry it.
-
- >I do want to try it. I do have some "faith" problems being a pessimist
- >that some sites will relinquish autonomy enough to get it going.
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- Nobody has to relinquish autonomy. Anyone who wants to pay for it can get
- as many groups as they want. The trick is to get rid of the mindset that
- if you can't get a free full feed you shouldn't bother...
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