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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Gatewaying mod.* from ARPA lists
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 13:07:52 EST
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> This is something I've been thinking about for a while.
> 
> If we could get the maintainers of the ARPA digests to add their own 
> Article-ID when they create the digest, then we could have multiple 
> gateways to Usenet and improve propagation and reliability.
> 
The code is in place to do this actually.  Those of us who provide
the service of allowing ARPANET users to make their digests available
to USENET have been discussing this for some time.

Currently, I am not convinced that this would help the current state
of the backbone.  It would require other changes to be made in USENET
file transport.  It would however cut the cross country time down from
the current two days.

-Ron