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"Eric Thomas (CERN/L3)" <ERIC@LEPICS> |
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Thu, 16 Feb 89 10:54:54 GMT |
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It is not the business of LISTSERV to play with the list of recipients of
a DIST job based on whether or not it is a PUT command from the LMC going
to all servers and containing one of the "netwide configuration files".
That would be an horrible kludge.
There is no problem adding a new tag to PEERS NAMES as you suggest.
However, the question is, what does this tag exactly mean? Do you want
all the files that would be sent to a backbone server? Just PEERS NAMES
and LINKSWT FILE? In that case, they would have to be moved to yet
another filelist, as the level of distribution of a file is determined by
the filelist it is listed in.
In other words, the question is the following: today, there is only one
set of files which is distributed to backbone servers, and that is also
the set of files that Doron wants. Tomorrow, they may be other files for
backbone servers. How do we define whether these files are also part of
the set that Doron wants or not? Do we need to distinguish between
:backbone.YES files and :Doron.YES ( :-) ) ones?
Eric
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