roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (09/29/86)
In article <2630@cbosgd.ATT.COM> mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes: > If we reposted every time some site's disk filled up, we'd double the > traffic on the net. The map is already up to 1.7MB [...] Perhaps this has been discussed before, but I havn't seen any talk of it. Would it not make sense to cut down on the frequency of posting the entire map? If each month only the diffs from the last posting were sent out, it would be easy enough for each site to automatically apply those diffs locally (using Larry Wall's patch program). The entire map might be posted quarterly or so just to make sure everyone was in sync. -- Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016