Re: distributed redundnat queue architecture (for M Bowman)

[Peter van Dijk]

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:41:49PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Depending on the various costs (WAN bandwitdh, CPU, storage space,
> programmer time) this architecture could result in something similar
> to usenet, with each extended queue storage server contacting the
> others at regular intervals with a list of message-IDs it has received,
> so that all of them get multiple chances to receive the same message
> stuck in the queue.

Do note that usenet was never designed to guarantee message delivery.
Usenet was designed for non-reliable wide-scale messaging.

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Greetz, Peter.
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