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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

4529.0. "USENET Newsgroups" by HKFINN::MACDONALD (VAXELN - Realtime Software Pubs) Wed Feb 20 1991 13:32

    The newsgroup stuff I receive on my UUCP always seems to be several
    days late, but the material on here is always pretty current. Is there
    a DEC node that can be used to collect these newsgroups in a more
    uptodate fashion on my Amy?

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4529.1 Probably not KALI::PLOUFF Ahhh... cider! Fri Feb 22 1991 10:19 14

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4529.1	Probably not	KALI::PLOUFF	Ahhh... cider!	`Fri Feb 22 1991 10:19`	14
	The Net Police frown on network connections from Easynet nodes to external nodes. I think that UUCP could easily be taken as just that. A few DEC machines (such as DECWRL and DECVAX) are on the Usenet "backbone," but are carefully insulated from general connection to the rest of our internal network. Since these two machines (and maybe others) sit at key points on Usenet, and have dedicated, relatively high-bandwidth links to internal Usenet "server" nodes like SHLUMP, we can read news on internal machines pretty quickly. Paul, your node at home may be at the end of a chain of several dialup links, so it's not surprising that some news articles take a long time to reach you that way. I would suggest looking for news batching software on VMS, and making regular downloads.

    The Net Police frown on network connections from Easynet nodes to
    external nodes.  I think that UUCP could easily be taken as just that. 
    A few DEC machines (such as DECWRL and DECVAX) are on the Usenet
    "backbone," but are carefully insulated from general connection to the
    rest of our internal network.  Since these two machines (and maybe
    others) sit at key points on Usenet, and have dedicated, relatively
    high-bandwidth links to internal Usenet "server" nodes like SHLUMP, we
    can read news on internal machines pretty quickly.  Paul, your node at
    home may be at the end of a chain of several dialup links, so it's not
    surprising that some news articles take a long time to reach you that
    way.
    
    I would suggest looking for news batching software on VMS, and making
    regular downloads.