emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (06/17/88)
I would post this to the regional groups of the areas this concerns, but there's not an easy way to do that; apologies for the world distribution. I'm soliciting comments on the organization of a usenet news backbone for the Midwest. I have in mind (more or less) the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York, as well as the province of Ontario. If you're in one of these places, and this article came to you via the west coast or through New Jersey, let's talk about shortening up the path between here and there. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, usenet news admin, U of Michigan mail group
emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (06/27/88)
In article <537@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: > >I'm soliciting comments on the organization of a usenet >news backbone for the Midwest. I have in mind (more >or less) the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, >Indiana, Ohio, and parts of Pennsylvania and New York, >as well as the province of Ontario. I thank the several news administrators who sent me mail regarding this posting. It appears as though there's as much co-operation in the area as I expected, and I anticipate that this effort to increase connectivity throughout the Midwest will prove generally useful. From looking at logs here, it appears that the usenet "backbone" has several unintended members. Taking a look just at the articles appearing at this nntp-only site from uunet shows that most of them come through 3 or 4 paths, only one of which is mostly made up of "official" backbone members. There are also a surprising number of multiple cross-country hops that show up. If you are a site on the internet in the midwestern states listed above, and you find that articles arriving at your site take an extraordinarily long Path: in getting there, you are welcome to contact me to arrange a partial or backup feed to trim down these paths and get articles more efficently. If you are a site on the internet that acts as a regional hub or part of a regional backbone, I'm interested in exchanging locally generated news. A quick scan of my articles here indicates that a site in the Pacific Northwest and in the southeast would be likely to be quite helpful. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, usenet news admin, U of Michigan mail group.