swc@cbscc.UUCP (Scott W. Collins) (11/03/84)
, Newsflash! JD is Canadian! ... so, now that we've heard this a million times, let's drop it. I suggest that all situations like this in the future be acted upon like a good packet switching network: it waits a period of time before flooding IMP-news packets to all neighbors in case they got the packets already from other ajoining (sp?) neighbors. Just make sure that youse guise wait different amounts of times, udder-wise (smart milk farmers) wheeze all will send our postings at the same time. How long does user "x" wait? Just write a random hashing function for yourself (with no zero multipliers) and use the output as a guideline for waiting-time. A Hater Of Waste (and other excrement)