Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!rutgers!psuvax1!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Multicast batching, anyone? Message-ID: Date: 3 May 89 20:09:52 GMT Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 9 Has anyone used the multicast feature to batch news? I was thinking of compressed batches. Multicast batching could reduce compression overhead significantly. Something like, a multicast target that batches the standard news subscription to multiple hosts, and other targets for regional and non-standard subscriptions. Non-overlapping subscription classes may be a little tricky because of the confusion between hierarchies and distributions... -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!shire!flee