From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 14:55:44 CST
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> It now says:
>
> They are largely obsolete on the Internet, but still see use in
> conjunction with some transort protocols such as UUCP, especially for
> backup feeds that normally are active only when a primary feed path has
> failed. There is no requirement for relaying agents that do not support
> such transport protocols to implement them.
I think there's an issue of perspective here, most of us use and/or run
large sites with many feeds, and if one goes down we have to rely on a
report to show no posts offered from a site. At least *I* don't get
beeped if a feed goes down;-)
But for a leaf site, depending on a single feed from one site, or a sat
feed, or a such feed, having a backup is really useful, and you have the
Devil's own time doing it unless the support is present. I'm not sure
"optional" is the right balance of progress vs. history.
And UUCP over TCP is still probably the best way to feed a low
bandwidth connect, even if it is full time. Compressed and streaming.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me