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From: essick@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re How to stop a followup - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 22:31:34 EDT
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uiuccsb!essick    Sep 19 09:58:00 1983

	Hmm. the added delays can be a problem. Big for some people.
We only talk to our netnews neighbors a few times during the evening.
With notes, I have a cron script which collects all the new things
about 30 minutes before each call.
	Anyone that polls only a few times a day instead of demand
would probably benefit from the delayed queueing and it shouldn't
impact their "time-until-it-leaves-the-site".
	Sites like ihnp4 might need to generate some sort of rule
like "local submissions wait X hours, anything coming in from elsewhere
is immediately passed on".
	There are lots of solutions.  Going through contortions to
make sure that the editor file is empty is one; I think that there
are better ones.

-- Ray Essick, University of Illinois
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