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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How to eliminate the cost of over 1/5 (or more) of net traffic
Message-ID: <1645@looking.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 20:34:58 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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It is not important that map data be distributed urgently.  If it takes
a few more days for monthly maps to come out, that isn't going to
cause trouble.

What is important is that they be distributed reliably (no missing parts)
and cheaply (because they're huge).

Any urgency can easily be handled by sending out just updates that
occur during the delay slower transmission methods would cause.

Physical mail with a backup of either couriers or phone transmissions
would be reliable and cheap.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473