REPLY TO 04/06/89 03:10 FROM [log in to unmask] "Revised LISTSERV forum":
Re: Two more ( NETWIDE commands
 
>                                                              Finally, if
>you  count the  CPU  time that  must  be  spent by  each  server to  keep
>informing the "closest" ones of changes to the subscriptions, as compared
>to the relatively  small fraction of people who will  indeed do a NETWIDE
>suspend, you will see that this does not solve the problem.
>
>  Eric
 
Eric,
 
Obviously there are problems with trying some sort of regional
centralization, but I don't think that discounts the need for it.
 
As you point out, the amount of CPU which would likely be consumed
by such requests as SUSPEND are probably small.  Therefore, it is
likely that a few regional servers (as opposed to a lot of "closest
backbone" servers) could handle the load if they could handle the
disk space for the centralized tables.  If the network community
feels that this is an important facility to have it seems natural to
ask the respective NICs to take this on.  I don't know how that idea
would fly in EARN right now, but disk space is not all that
expensive any more and I think we could talk BITNIC into agreeing to
take on that role for the states.  (Better something that requires
disk space than people :-) Another machine might be able to handle
all of Europe.  So what if it takes a day or so for your request to
be processed, the worst it means is some extra mail you didn't want
or a couple of missed days at a time when you've already missed a
lot already.
 
/June
 
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