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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: tor.news,ont.uucp
Subject: Re: news
Message-ID: <2650@dciem.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 22:45:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: dciem.2650
Posted: Tue Feb 16 17:45:33 1988
References: <8802050452.AA03771@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1988Feb15.134756.3856@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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Keywords: news, flood, alarm
Summary: 


>Although there is indeed room for local oscillations due to things like
>throttling batchers, it is clear from conversations at Usenix that the
>news fluctuations are network-wide to some degree.
>-- 
>Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry

If the speculations are correct, this would be an expected consequence.
The oscillations would propagate both upstream and downstream.  Anyone
could start it.  A real analysis is needed, to see whether the idea is
more than speculation.
-- 

Martin Taylor
...uunet!{mnetor|utzoo}!dciem!mmt
mmt@zorac.arpa
Magic is just advanced technology ... so is intelligence.  Before computers,
the ability to do arithmetic was proof of intelligence.  What proves
intelligence now?  Obviously, it is what we can do that computers can't.