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From: eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Usenet is not a BBS (was Re: (VERY) Long dead subjects
Message-ID: <8839@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 89 00:23:34 GMT
References: <250D145B.4189@ateng.com> <1989Sep12.124629.27897@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <14661@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Reply-To: eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <14661@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>Usenet's flood algorithm, on the other hand, visits the sins of the tiro
>upon the willing and unwilling alike.  The only cost effective control

What is the "flood algorithm?"  Where do I go to line up two-by-two?
(Sorry, couldn't resist..)   But I am really interested in what happens
when the system saturates.  Does this account for situations where I have
missed seeing messages that other netters are commenting on?  I always
assumed that missed messages were due to hardware outages.
-- 
Julian Vrieslander 
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