Aucbvax.1742
NET.news
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!mark
Sun Jun 14 20:32:39 1981
saving transmissions
I object to the 3 stage protocol as suggested by Jerry.
I thought of the same thing long ago, and rejected it
on the grounds of long delays. Since one site often
only polls another once a day, it would take 3 days
to get a message transmitted. In chains, it would
take 2 days per hop. Thus, mail from ucbvax to, say,
harpo could take over a week to get through. If netnews
is to be used for an interactive medium for discussion,
a reply could take over a week to get back, with a 2 week
turnaround.
Clearly this is worst case, and a delay of a few days is more
likely than a week. But there would be a significant lag,
and conversations would be way out of sync with each other.
Other, unanticipated delays are possible too. Like this note,
which is in reply to something 2 weeks old.
Mark
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