MALLETT@HLSDNL5.BITNET (Keep cool; process promptly) (02/16/88)
Hi all,
I know in the last few weeks I have seen several people
asking what is happening to info-vax, at this site in
Europe the flow of information has virtually (ho, ho!)
stopped!
Can someone please let me know what is going to happen?
Yours in anticipation,
Nigel
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********************************************************************dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes) (02/23/88)
In article <8802202217.AA23139@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MALLETT@HLSDNL5.BITNET (Keep cool; process promptly) writes: > asking what is happening to info-vax, at this site in > stopped! > > Can someone please let me know what is going to happen? > * Name: Nigel Mallett * Phone: Int + 31 + 70435554 * > * Postbus 421, * MALLETT@HLSDNL50 (Bitnet) * Well, it's quite simple. There is ONE BITNET link between the US and Europe (thanks a lot, BITNIC...grr). This list generates between 300 and 500 messages PER DAY (counting all multiple copies for stupid mailers, local servers, inter-server distributions, etc.) . With all the other semi-important traffic that has to pass through this link, files queue up -- about 6000 or so. You can only push data through a line so fast. Thus, all this has to work it's way through the queues. This is EXACTLY why this group should be digested. The volume is just TOO high. Once more, I volunteer to digest this group -- any takers? -- David Boyes | ARPA: 556%OREGON1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Systems Division | BITNET: 556@OREGON1 UO Computing Center | UUCP: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP 'How long d'ya think it'll be before just us oldtimers remember WISCVM?'
d2b@rayssd.ray.com (Donald A. Borsay) (02/26/88)
In article <1598@uoregon.UUCP> dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes) writes: >This list generates between 300 >and 500 messages PER DAY (counting all multiple copies for stupid >mailers, local servers, inter-server distributions, etc.) >. With all the other semi-important traffic that has to pass through >this link, files queue up -- about 6000 or so. You can only push data >through a line so fast. > >Thus, all this has to work it's way through the queues. This is >EXACTLY why this group should be digested. The volume is just TOO >high. I guess I'm missing the point... Even with a digest, the AMOUNT of data is still the same, but the number of articles/messages is less. I guess BITnet must have a large overhead per mail message... Why not resolve this within BITnet, or maybe even at the cross Atlantic link? Isn't the Arpanet list send to a BITnet list anyhow? If so, the intersect point is the BITnet list. I read INFO-VAX from the Usenet comp.os.vms group. Reading a digest format newgroup makes RN as useful as CAT! > >Once more, I volunteer to digest this group -- any takers? > > >-- >David Boyes | ARPA: 556%OREGON1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU >Systems Division | BITNET: 556@OREGON1 >UO Computing Center | UUCP: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP >'How long d'ya think it'll be before just us oldtimers remember WISCVM?' -- Don |Raytheon Company, Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, RI Borsay |ARPAnet: d2b%rayssd.RAY.COM@a.cs.uiuc.edu |UUCPmail: {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus!raybed2}!rayssd!d2b