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Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 04:16:40 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> Paul Foster wrote:
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> > I don't think it would help this as you are still at the mercy of
> > message propagation, remember the messages won't be originating here.
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> If you and I are both reading RTL here, that means that THIS news server
> is serving up the posts. If you post while reading HERE, the post will
> go to this news server first (before being propagated outward in the
> classic chaotic usenet fashion, and eventually reaching most/all news
> servers that carry RTL). Thus, as soon as you post, if you were reading
> here (and posting here first) I, if I am also reading here, will see
> your post.
>
> Hence reducing propagation delay to almost nil. If either of us is
> reading somewhere else (and thus posting to some other server) the above
> does not apply.
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> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
> For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
> - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
> - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
> - This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
I concede that point but there will still be alot of propagation delay
that will probably confuse people here because of all the non lugnet
originated RTL posts, unless of course, everybody migrated to lugnet
which would then make the whole RTL thing moot.
--
Paul Foster
http://reality.sgi.com/foster_stco/lego.html
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