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From: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Cutting sites for backbone sites
Message-ID: <2939@pesnta.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 02:08:04 EST
Article-I.D.: pesnta.2939
Posted: Sat Dec 14 02:08:04 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Dec-85 00:20:18 EST
References: <1882@watdcsu.UUCP> <856@vortex.UUCP> <1960@watdcsu.UUCP> <311@fear.UUCP>
Reply-To: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation / Customer Service
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Keywords: grading
Summary: 

In article <311@fear.UUCP> robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) writes:
> ...
> Backbone sites can cut their phone bills caused by sending news to
> non-backbone sites to zero by requiring the non-backbone sites to
> poll for news.  
> ...

Good idea, backbone sites that can tell their uucico to only send files  of  a
particular  grade  can  send  mail  ASAP to the remote site and hold back news
files until the remote site polls.  When the remote site polls, uucico  allows
the files to be picked up at the remote sites expense.  Sites with 'everything
goes' uucico are going to have a tough time  preventing  a  remote  site  from
looping  a  mail  message  thru  the  backbone site, thus causing a full blast
transfer of news to occur at the expense of the backbone.

We send mail ASAP, send area news like ba.* ASAP, compress/batch the  rest  of
the  news  on  hourly  intervals.  Some  sites  (like pesvc in New Jersey) are
required to poll and pick up their news but we send mail to them ASAP and some
newsgroups we send to them ASAP also (you should see my sys file :-).