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From: mark@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Multicast batching, anyone?
Message-ID: <860@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Date: 7 May 89 05:42:05 GMT
References: <FLEE.89May3160952@shire.cs.psu.edu> <1RMF4D#9rtBZh=eric@snark.uu.net>
Reply-To: mark@jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Organization: Minnetech Consulting, Inc., St. Paul, MN
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In article <1RMF4D#9rtBZh=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>In <FLEE.89May3160952@shire.cs.psu.edu> Felix Lee wrote:
>> Has anyone used the multicast feature to batch news?  I was thinking
>> of compressed batches.  Multicast batching could reduce compression
>> overhead significantly.

Most of the sites in the state of Minnesota have used a version of
multicasting which was developed by Steve McDowell and Shane McCarron.  The
software works with the existing 2.11 new software and does multicasting
quite simply.  It supports both vanilla and HDB UUCP.

If there is enough interest, I can post the software...

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Mark H. Colburn                          mark@jhereg.mn.org
Minnetech Consulting, Inc.