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From: kent@happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How to eliminate the cost of over 1/5 (or more) of net traffic
Message-ID: <447@happym.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 02:27:11 GMT
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In article <7869@mcdchg.UUCP> heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes:
>Don Speck (mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu) writes:
>> I propose that batches be sorted in shortest-first order.  This will hold
>> the problem postings for the weekend, and, if done widely, will encourage
>> more succinct postings (and speed the propagation of cancel messages).
>
>good things Don mentions.  Unfortunately, it would also mean that we would
>lose all semblance of discussion order.  If person A posted a 150 line article
>and person B posted a 10 line rebuttle, the rebuttle would appear on systems
>before the original article.  (Often, it would not be much sooner, but it

This is already happening on my site.  I see a lot of replies before
the article that they reply to.  I don't know if this is because of
size-driven priority schemes, or just the general randomness of the net.

I get news from several directions, and there are some notefiles sites
in sme of the directions.  I don't know whether they tend to scramble
article order.
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