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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: redistribution of info-apple
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Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 12:15:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 29 12:15:00 1987
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If service is reliable, I could receive info-apple from a bitnet
LISTSERV instead of from arpanet.  However, looking at my net typology,
I'm not so sure that's efficient.  If I understand how Mailer works,
it only sends one copy (along with a distribution list) of each message
through the gateway.  So wiscvm.bitnet would send one to the LISTSERV
at NSDUVM1 which would then make up a new copy of the message and its
distribution list and shoot if back through wiscvm.bitnet to (among
lots of other places on bitnet) LISTSERV@MARIST.bitnet (which is reached
by going THROUGH UCONNVM.bitnet.  If I subscribe from MARIST (which is
the nearest LISTSERV, then LISTSERV@MARIST makes up a copy with its
(New England?) distribution list and sends that BACK to UCONNVM (where a
copy could be picked off and sent to my reader).

Hmmm.... is that really more efficient than getting a copy from arpanet?
Or would the most efficient LISTSERV from where I sit on the network
be the one at NDSUVM1?  AND do I subscribe to INFO-APPLE (that's 10
characters and IBM doesn't like file names longer than 8 so it must
be reduced to something like INFO-APP ??)

Please DON'T dump me from the arpa feed until I'm getting satisfactory
service from a bitnet server (if that's what I should do).

BY THE WAY! I have asked a "contact" person at a LISTSERV on bitnet if
he could find a couple of megs to host Apple II files.  He said as
soon as he's back from vacation (didn't say when that was) he'd look
into it -- hope anyway.