Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11>
Thu, 16 Oct 1986 23:24 SET
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To help overcome network congestion, FRECP11-LISTSERV has been improved to
allow us to easily define peer lists linked to the BITNIC listserv with mail
sent to one of the FRECP11-servers being automatically forwarded to the master
list at BITNIC. Example:
list@BITNIC
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list@TAMVM1 <--> list@UGA <---> list@UIUCVMD <---> list@DEARN
|------------> list@CLVM
|------------> list@RUTVM1
When mail is sent to the BITNIC list, it gets to the UGA list (in our exam-
ple) and is then forwarded among the peers. When a peer receives a piece of
mail it forwards it automatically to the master list at BITNIC, and it then
gets redistributed the normal way. This works only for lists which are configu-
red as send=public at BITNIC. We plan to convert the majority of "big" lists
from BITNIC this way.
LSTSRV-L people: Harold will give details about this later on the list. Basi-
cally you must set up "Editor= listname@BITNIC,LISTSERV@BITNIC" in the list
header and it may require a fix to LSVXMAIL if your version is not up to date.
Files from LISTSERV@BITNIC can get through, other files are forwarded to the
"list editor", aka [log in to unmask]
Eric
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