[45486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Fidell)
Sat Feb 2 17:41:18 2002
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 22:40:36 +0000
From: James Fidell <james@cloud9.co.uk>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Quoting Stephen J. Wilcox (steve@opaltelecom.co.uk):
> For the peering point question I'm thinking some kind of multicast thing,
> internally I've no suggestions other than perhaps only exchanging message
> ids between peer servers, hence giving back a partial feed to the local
> box's external peers.
>
> Any thoughts?
Ask google about "drinking from the firehose USENET multicast news",
or have a look in ftp.uu.net:/networking/news/muse.
I've no idea what became of this project. I first read the paper
when it came out and I was running/hacking on news servers. I clearly
thought it interesting enough to keep a copy of it.
James
