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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Creation of new groups; 2 suggestions
Message-ID: <2026@glacier.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 11:07:54 EST
Article-I.D.: glacier.2026
Posted: Thu Dec  5 11:07:54 1985
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In article <2041@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	I see that mod.recipes got off to a shaky start because some of the
>articles got to sites before the newgroups.  Would it be a good idea (at
>least for mod groups) to send out newgroup messages once a day for a couple
>of days before posting anything to the group?  This will give the dust a
>chance to settle, and let SA's catch up on manual group creations.
>-- 

Actually, Mark Horton sent out the newgroup, and I waited a whole week after
it went out, and then I sent out another one, and then I waited a day, and
then I sent out the articles. The loss was caused by something else. I think
that all of them eventually reached every site, but the high-speed path was
also the low-reliability path, so the net was flooded with a vanguard subset.
-- 
	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA