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From: davest@daemon.UUCP (Dave Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Why are distributions mandatory in 2.10.2?
Message-ID: <97@daemon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 13:40:33 EST
Article-I.D.: daemon.97
Posted: Tue Nov 20 13:40:33 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Nov-84 02:32:30 EST
References: <368@watcgl.UUCP> <77@daemon.UUCP> <465@watcgl.UUCP>
Reply-To: davest@daemon.UUCP (Dave Stewart)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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	Well, I'm going to have to forget about including what was
said before on this - too much context is confusing things.  If you
need to know what this is about, read the referenced articles.

	Dave, as to your first point: You're quite correct.  Postnews
probably should not demand a distribution.  However, the workaround is
so trivial, (Deleting the line in the editor), that it's not even worth
patching the code in my opinion.  Why require people to enter a
distribution?  Because distributions are a previously under-used feature
that can help limit the news traffic net-wide.  True, it may be over-
compensation, but that's how it goes.  It should not be a hard fix, in any
case.

	As to your second point: Although I have not testing my suggestion,
I believe that it would work.  If you are worried about speed of trans-
mission with the "wat" distribution class, then invent a new one, like
"wat-fast" or "wat-class" that fully interconnects all nodes in the
sub-network that is defined to be sent directly via ethernet; then
post all articles with this distribution class as I suggested.

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David C. Stewart                          uucp:    tektronix!davest
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