>The last few days the link between Yale and Cuny has been incredibly >overloaded. Yesterday there were over 5000 files in the queue. One >thing that I have noticed is that the listserv at maine and comserv >at rpicicge have been continually flooding this link with a large number >of files of the same size. This got me to thinking that there should >be peers for some of these lists on the other side of cuny. What would >be nice, would be a tool to analyze the distribution list and make such >suggestions. Of course, setting up such peers would need to be done >manually. > >Unfortunately, it appears that the RSCS link between Yale and Cuny doesn't >use any sort of aged priority scheme (there is a moderate sized file waiting >in the queue to be sent to me for the past four days -- all of the small >files from listserv move ahead of it), so that making the priority worse >for listserv files wouldn't seem to help. > Victor Miller -- T.J. Watson Research Ctr. First, Mail-Via=DISTRIBUTE would help just as much. And in fact, if RPI's LISTSERV had been shipped current copies of PEERS NAMES last week, instead of having a 6 month old copy, it would be doing that today. As for priority aging code, YALEVM had that code running a while ago and it turned out to have a bunch of problems, so they were finally convinced to remove it. If IBM were to provide such a feature in their products, instead of just their internal systems, we would be pleased to use it. Bill