Xref: utzoo alt.config:82 news.config:490 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!labrea!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!bbn!mit-eddie!jbs From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) Newsgroups: alt.config,news.config Subject: Re: The size of the 'alt' subnet Message-ID: <8299@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 27 Feb 88 00:28:38 GMT References: <5077@swan.ulowell.edu> <1939@epimass.EPI.COM> <5098@swan.ulowell.edu> <301@bacchus.DEC.COM> Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 9 In article <301@bacchus.DEC.COM> reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes: >[about how you should send a sendsys to the whole net as a control] Also, you might want to try using a different control message (for both parts of the experiment) like "version". Sendsys is easily turned off so that news administrators can keep their connectivity (names of internal machines, etc.) informaiton private. Jeff Siegal