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How will we deal with high volume newsgroups?

Dave Kristofferson kristoff at GENBANK.BIO.NET
Thu Jul 23 14:44:50 EST 1992


David,

	Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that one can currently
limit the distribution of messages simply by using the "distribution"
feature in news software.  For example I have the following options
here:

Distribution (default='world', '?' for help) : ?
How widely should your article be distributed?

local   Local to this site
ig      Systems at IntelliGenetics
bionet  All sites carrying bionet newsgroups
ba      Sites in the San Francisco Bay Area
ca      California Sites
usa     United States
na      North America
world   Everywhere on Usenet in the world (same as net)


I would not be surprised if there is a "baylor" distribution available
to you.  Unfortunately sometimes newsreaders aren't configured
correctly and the distribution mechanism may fail, but at least the
idea is already there 8-).

Another possibility that we could entertain would be to split up
METHODS into a few subsets if anyone thinks that the time has come for
this.

Dave




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