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- From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,news.misc
- Subject: Re: satellite news feed
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 16:34:07 -0500
- Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <1gb1gfINN5db@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- References: <ByLoFA.Enp@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Dec02.212553.10509@clarinet.com> <1992Dec6.02150
- NNTP-Posting-Host: milk.warren.mentorg.com
- Keywords: satellite news
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- In <1992Dec10.150448.22819@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
-
- >>>I would find the downtime issue a problem. I would think they should move
- >>>to compression and offer articles 2-3 times a day to avoid this.
- >>
- >> We don't see the need for compression at this time. We do re-send the articles
- >> since we have several machines dumping articles to a common nfs directory.
-
- >Perhaps you could explain your redundancy scheme in a little more detail.
-
- They send a months worth of Usenet to you on tape. Every month you re-load
- the tape into your news spool using special software that changes the
- message-id's and about 10% of the "From" lines. Nobody knows the difference.
-
- Oops, wrong reality.
-
- Tom
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