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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
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Subject: Re: Minutes ... (nntpxmit)
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Date: 3 Jul 89 18:26:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: bin@primate.wisc.edu's message of 3 Jul 89 14:42:39 GMT

bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:

>What is the reason for this?  To reduce average propagation time?  To
>increase size of already-large log files?

To reduce average propagation time. Unless you're running on floppy disks
or never prune your log files, their size should not be an issue.

When Ed Vielmetti was at the U of Michigan's computing center, he had mailrus
and sharkey running nntpxmit from cron every minute. This may or may not
still be the case; Ed's now with UM's math department.

Bill Wisner		wisner@mica.berkeley.edu	     ucbvax!mica!wisner
I'm not the NRA either.