Path: utzoo!censor!dybbuk!yunexus!geac!eric
From: eric@geac.UUCP (Eric Dirks)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: Redundant feeds (was Re: attcan't?)
Message-ID: <7279@geac.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 22:48:12 GMT
References: <1989May6.220422.126@telly.on.ca> <1989May7.041643.29194@utzoo.uucp> <1389@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> <498@jtsv16.UUCP>
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In article <498@jtsv16.UUCP> kevin@jtsv16.jts.com (kevin brighton) writes:
>In article <1389@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) writes:
>>Is there not a redundant full feed into the Toronto area?  I thought that

>We bring a (nearly) full feed in from uunet, have been since last
>August:

>We feed geac and a few leaf nodes.

     Originally our main feed was yunexus however a while ago, there was a small
problem with smoke in the computer room there. This meant that yunexus became
somewhat unreliable for most of the holiday season. At this time we set up a 
full feed to jtsv16 (it had been only local groups up to that time) and 
afterwards left it as a redundant feed. Additionally the traffic to yunexus
was also restricted (to non-jtsv16 articles) because it seemed to be heavily
loaded with news traffic and an additional redundant inbound feed seemed 
unnecessary. 
    I anticipated that the news re-organization would change things later anyway
so I did not worry about the issue further. Since this has not happened, geac
is prepared to arrange redundant feeds to Trailblazer sites in order to provide 
a backup for the regular feeds. If you are interested send me mail to work out 
the details.


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Eric Dirks 		Geac Computer Corporation, Markham, Ontario
eric@geac
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