Path: utzoo!yunexus!davecb
From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Internet and Bitnet Directories?
Message-ID: <5045@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 89 02:35:18 GMT
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david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
| technically it'd be very simple to push bitnet site data into
| the Usenet maps [...]|
| the hard part is to do it right.  

  If there's a published or measurable metric on the speed, capacity
or average load on the various links, one can map that to either usenet
"HOURLY+HIGH" or internet preference values, with a commensurate bound
on error.  The hard part is getting the data (;-)), not reducing it.

--dave (bitnet wizards, where are you when I need you) c-b
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