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Subject: Re: Usenet and causality (sort of)
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 17:44:44 EDT
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As far as I know the uucp distributed with 4.2 BSD is FIFO
within each priority 'grade',
so with all 4.2 (or honey danber) sites news remains ordered
even using the terribly inefficent method of one uux per article.

Most uuxqt versions process files in an mysterious order
and a single such site can mess up the ordering of news articles.
I am not aware of a uucp that ships shortest-file first.

By the way, there were some botches in the 4.2 queue ordering:
1) mail wasn't processed before news, resulting in large mail delays.
2) uuxqt got constipated if the 20 highest-priority incoming 'X.' requests
could not be done due to missing files, resulting in emmense backlogs (ugh).
	Tom Truscott