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From: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: ca.general,net.news
Subject: Re: Strange news article path(s)
Message-ID: <2795@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 19:24:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 19:24:10 1986
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Reply-To: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Glenn C. Scott)
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Organization: System Development Corporation R&D, Santa Monica
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Keywords: backbone, west coast
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  UUCP on the machine "sdcrdcf" has had many problems during the last 5 or 6
months.  We apologise for the inconvenience that may have resulted due to slow
news or mail.

  About six months ago we moved the entire computer facility from one building
to another (brand new) building.  Moving that machine ('780) was like moving an
old piano -- it's never quite the same again.  We've also had no end of trouble
with telephone lines and electrical power.  More recently we've had problems
with the sdcrdcf <--> sdcsvax link but, as of the last few days, things are
looking much better.

  We're under a LOT of pressure to reduce our phone bills.  So we've reduced
sites and make calls during the night as much as possible.  From what I hear
They're trying to keep from making many long-distance calls, which naturally
increases the burden of sdcrdcf to move news and mail.

  We're sticking with it at least until there is some reorganisation of USENET
to see if we can still afford to provide the service we are now.  Hopefully
there will be a more diverse set of backbone hosts and that will relieve the
current backbone from moving *all* of the traffic.

Glenn

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Glenn C. Scott
System Development Corporation, 2525 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA. 90406 
213-820-4111 X5653	UUCP: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP   ARPA: Scott@DOCKMASTER.ARPA