Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Backup newsfeed plans
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.171354.7219@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 17:13:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun28.112207.939@panix.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun28.112207.939@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>What we'd like to do is set up a backup feed. Can anyone think of any serious
>problems with the following plan?

You can use existing facilities to get more or less the same effect; many
people use ihave/sendme links for backup feeds.  (This would work better
if there were a delayed-ihave/sendme facility; it's easy to tinker one
up, and an "official" implementation is in the works.)
-- 
Lightweight protocols?  TCP/IP *is*     | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
lightweight already; just look at OSI.  |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry