Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!columbia!caip!meccts!mecc!sewilco From: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Newsgroups: net.news,net.sources.d Subject: Re: Backbone automatic news-compression question ... Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 13:03:44 EDT Article-I.D.: mecc.628 Posted: Fri Sep 26 13:03:44 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 06:45:34 EDT References: Reply-To: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Organization: MN Ed Comp Corp, St Paul, MN Lines: 28 Keywords: question [regarding] compression [of] news [for] transmission Xref: watmath net.news:5246 net.sources.d:544 Summary: One compress per site now. One per news batch with 2.11 utility. In article wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill Stewart 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs HO 2G202) writes: >In article werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: >On the subject of compression for transmission, if a backbone site is >transmitting a given message to 24 other sites, does it compress each >outgoing message once, or does it do it 24 times? This is obviously ... At present each news transmission via uucp is separate, so the answer is 24 times. Here in Minnesota several sites are testing two programs which allow sending one batched news file to several sites. With MULTISEND/uucast, the answer is "24 times or less, probably approaching 1". If all 24 sites get the same messages, the answer is 1. Yes, this does drastically reduce CPU and disk usage. MULTISEND/uucast will be posted to the net after news 2.11, as they fit around news 2.11. I mention them by name so you'll know them when they are posted. -- Scot E. Wilcoxon Minn Ed Comp Corp {quest,dicome,meccts}!mecc!sewilco 45 03 N 93 08 W (612)481-3507 ihnp4!meccts!mecc!sewilco Laws are society's common sense, recorded for the stupid. The alert question everything anyway.