Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Multicast. Message-ID: <1991Apr25.175801.4209@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 17:58:01 GMT References: <1991Apr22.203214.25117@sequent.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: >>Can someone explain how multicast is used. I have a news group >>that I want to mail to a few users. > >Assuming this is a question about B news (I'll leave it to Henry >if you're asking about C news) ... We've never done a lot about this in C News, seeing nothing much wrong with lines like: daffy:sci.ducks/all::mail duckburg.BITNET!daisy gladstone@slobbovia.edu howard Multicast for more substantial transmission we've punted to the batcher; since all the decision-making on how things get sent is done by tiny shell files, it's easy enough to do a custom job for odd requirements. It's hard for us to figure out what might be required when we don't use it ourselves. -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry