Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11>
Sat, 14 Mar 1987 14:59 SET
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Jeff,
It's not as easy as you think. First, all the outbound copies of a given
file are not identical because of the 'prologtext' feature. Whenever the
prologtext is ^= '' I must send the file individually. Second, a file sent via
DISTRIBUTE may arrive from another LISTSERV than the one sending the file.
Some servers might be AFDed to the file and be programmed to perform a
particular action when the origin is LISTSERV@XXXXX, but not just when the
origin is [log in to unmask] Lastly, you will generally be AFDed to the server
nearest to you. This means that, in case the file is one available on ALL the
LISTSERVs, DISTRIBUTE would just end up sending the stuff directly and eating
30s additional CPU to do so. If the file is not available from all the
servers, then DISTRIBUTE would be useful.
A possible solution: use DISTRIBUTE for those subscribers who have an empty
prologtext, unless disabled by a flag in the filelist (which I would set for
all the "Peers= ALL" files). Do you think there are many servers which need a
DIRECT send WITHOUT prologtext?
Eric
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