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From: sob@drillsys.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: backbone maps
Message-ID: <359@drillsys.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 19:47:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: drillsys.359
Posted: Mon May 12 19:47:20 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 21:32:34 EDT
Reply-To: sob@drillsys.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Organization: Teleco Oilfield Services -- Drilling Systems Technology, Houston, Tx
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In response to Joe Buck's comments regarding whether drillsys is a backbone
or not, I offer this information.

drillsys provides the main feed for news into and out of Houston, Texas.
It receives news from gatech and forwards it to sdcsvax each evening. It
as yet does not receive news from sdcsvax since that would double the
LD charges. If sdcsvax does not need the feed from drillsys, we will
drop it. We prefer to connect to sites that are local or reachable
via PC Pursuit. We would like to connect to a site in Dallas, but
that site must be running 2.10.3 news with the latest compression
software since we will not distribute news in any other form. This
is likely to be a problem since Dallas/Ft. Worth likes to run notes, but
the offer is available. We also intend to exchage news with ut-sally
once Austin is available via PC Pursuit.

Perhaps Joe did not notice drillsys in the paths due to a four-day
downtime around April 26th. We have now recovered from that, but
it took awhile to catch up.
Stan Barber <sob@drillsys.UUCP>
News administrator, drillsys, soma, bcm5000