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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: Survey: C News batching vs. nntplink
Message-ID: <89Nov19.212258est.2734@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
References: <1989Nov20.002159.26404@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 02:23:29 GMT

Obviously, running nntplink to leaf nodes is one case where batching in nntpd
does not get in the way.  Also, by picking nntp feeds that don't talk to each
other you can reduce the likelyhood of duplicates (i.e. there is a point of
diminishing return in any flooding algorithm, that where you start getting...
flooded).  Even if no duplicate article was ever transmitted, NNTP feed mania
can still lead to case where all you do all day is say no to IHAVE requests...

I'd say: pick your feeds carefully, and weed out the less useful ones,
independently of any technical fix you may come up for inews/rnews/relaynews.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4