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From: eric@snark.UUCP (EricS.Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: High Volume Calls For New Approach
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Date: 13 Dec 88 15:59:46 GMT
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In article <581@bungia.bungia.mn.org>, Shane P. McCarron writes:
> It seems like it is time to talk about multicast again.  News 2.11 has
> a facility in it called multicast.  While this goes largely
> unutilized, it can be used to ELIMINATE wasted spool space and CPU
> time.  I have tried several times to post the software associated with
> using this to comp.sources.unix, but Rich never seems to get around to
> it.

Shene's multicast facility is fully supported and documented in 3.0.
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