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From: mikeh@dell.dell.com (Mike Hammel)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Usenet is not a BBS (was Re: (VERY) Long dead subjects
Message-ID: <3237@dell.dell.com>
Date: 13 Sep 89 17:19:20 GMT
References: <250D145B.4189@ateng.com> <1989Sep12.124629.27897@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <14661@bfmny0.UU.NET> <8839@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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In article <8839@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
-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.

Technically, the "system" (USENET) couldn't saturate completely, could it? 
I could see pieces of it, major pieces, getting completely flooded but not
the entire network.  By design wouldn't traffic flow around the saturated 
points (find alternate paths) to keep moving?  (Does this question belong     
here? Or should I graduate to another group? :-))

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