[net.micro.mac] Dealing with lost sources

jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (08/02/85)

> As usual we missed a couple of pieces of this file (parts 2 & 3).  I would
> appreciate it if someone could mail them to me.  Why does so much get lost
> on the net?  Is it worse at some sites than others?  I hate to think of all
> of the software that we are missing because it got munched somewhere along
> the way...

Recently I thought of a "somewhat radical" solution to this, which I posted
to net.news as a suggestion, though I don't have time to read that newsgroup,
so only got a few comments by mail agreeing with the idea.  It would,
however, require cooperation of the netnews administrators at the various
sites.

The idea would be, given a piece of a netnews article that was missing
(one posted via multiple-postings), identify the path by which the lost
article should have come to you, then write back to the previous site along
the path, until you found the one who had lost it.  Then have him repost
it.  This would cause all the sites along the way that had it missing to
have it reappear, without dozens of people writing around all over the
place mailing missing copies.
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jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (08/02/85)

> As usual we missed a couple of pieces of this file (parts 2 & 3).  I would
> appreciate it if someone could mail them to me.  Why does so much get lost
> on the net?  Is it worse at some sites than others?  I hate to think of all
> of the software that we are missing because it got munched somewhere along
> the way...

Recently I thought of a "somewhat radical" solution to this, which I posted
to net.news as a suggestion, though I don't have time to read that newsgroup,
so only got a few comments by mail agreeing with the idea.  It would,
however, require cooperation of the netnews administrators at the various
sites.

The idea would be, given a piece of a netnews article that was missing (one
posted via multiple-postings), identify the path by which the lost article
should have come to you, then write back to the previous site along the
path, until you found the one who had lost it.  Then have him repost it
with the same message ID as the original.  This would cause all the sites
along the way that had it missing to have it reappear, without dozens of
people writing around all over the place mailing missing copies; and the
identical message ID would cause it to be rejected at sites that already
had it.
-- 
Shyy-Anzr:  J. Eric Roskos
UUCP:       ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer
US Mail:    MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC;
	    2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642

	    "Vg frrzf yvxr hc gb zr."