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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Commercial Newsfeeds (Was: something else)
Message-ID: <1871@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 88 19:37:25 GMT
References: <6327@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2461@epimass.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <2461@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <6327@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:

>Too bad you missed Rick Adams' excellent and detailed presentation at
>the SF Usenix.  He went into a lot of detail about how much comes in and
>how much goes out (giving us a rough idea of the balance sheet), and
>how many megabytes per minute :-) it pumps.  The amount of hardware
>and communication facilities UUNET has is amazing.  No public access
>site (or any site on the net) is in the same league.  The whole net
>would collapse without uunet; it's currently more important to mail
>topology than ihnp4 ever was.

>It was a very clever presentation; it was so interesting that those of
>us who came to fight about Webber, mail rerouting, and comp.?.women
>forgot all about it until the time ran out!

Would it be possible for the text or a summary of this presentation to be 
posted here. I'm sure a lot more people (and uunet subscribers) read this
than can afford to travel to Usenix.

I'm mainly interested in the "techy" side of things. Number of lines, type
of equipment, bytes pumped, etc; there has only been a small amount of info
on this since things got rolling last year. I'm sure that the original
description of the system is no longer accurate.

So here's a request to Rick to post the text to his presentation or a
summary thereof.



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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532